Frost over the World - S. Africa violence - 23 May 08

Bishop Paul Verryn and Helen Zille, the mayor of Cape Town, join Sir David Frost to discuss the wave of brutal attacks against foreigners that have left at least 42 people dead in South Africa in recent days.

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• zille

[lastnymleft]

The ANC government is using the foreigners as a scapegoat outlet for expressions against the failure of the government to deliver meaningful improvements in the last 15 years

The single most basic function of a State is to protect the lives and property of its people. The fact that the government is NOT doing this, for fear that the unrest will instead focus on its own failures, is a fundamental breakdown in the social contract between the State and the people. They forfeit their right to rule.

[asas2jh]

"The ANC government is using the foreigners as a scapegoat outlet for expressions against the failure of the government to deliver meaningful improvements in the last 15 years"

Hear! Hear! This just before an election makes you wonder - does it not!

[oduro0111]

that country is cursed. rest of africans let stay away from this cursed country. one day these fools will again come for help (they forgot about apartheid and who provided refuge for their freedom fighters) then we shall remind them.

[bgibb101]

majority rule has destroyed Africa. Now they are migrating to the West to WHITE governed nations. Blacks know where they are better off.

[Maanslang]

Their are 3 white ethnic groups. Boer, Afrikaner and English. The Boer nation is indigenous. If you think they are not then no black African is indigenous to SA. The Khoi-San is the indigenous race of Southern Africa and is not related to the Bantu Africans from West and East Africa. The Niguni tribes nearly wiped the Khoi-San out while conquering the the land southwards. If you except the black tribes in SA you must also except the white ones. Do white people belong in America and Australia?

[binky4647]

Tribes,Tribes and more Tribes.

It will never change, the only Tribe who dont belong are white.You cannot ever get now a functioning democratic rule. Its just simply beyound them.

This country of South Africa and Zim are now in the hands of Tribes with no other agenda than to kill the Tribe next to it.

Nothing has changed apart from gorillas in suits.

[wdednam]

But Mrs. Zille's response to Frost's question linking inequality to these events is very telling indeed. They just want this to blow over so they can focus on getting back on track with the 'growth' (economic I suppose) . Well, growth without distribution's gonna get you nowhere fast, exactly where you are right now, Democratic Alliance. That's why you'll never win an election!

[mindispower]

Good grief, did the subject matter have no effect on you?

[vraddrag]

why not change the presenter to Ghida Fakhry for Frost over the World?? I think she's better and way more attractive than this man.

[Masri11]

The problem is deeply cultural.The inherent nature of these black africans who have no deeply seated moral culture to shield them from a this kind of barbaric outburst. To most of these people freedom is being able to drink and have sex.Look at the rape of babies,the spread Aids,the rise of xenephobia,the obsequiosity to the white master.The end of apartheid may have come too early for these people are not ready to rule a country or lead.