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Inkatha Freedom Party March - 07 April 2006 When I was growing up in KwaZulu Natal. The onlu political party we knew was the Inkatha. Things have changed, we have so many policical parties and the everyone has the right to voice the opinions. Tags: south africa inkatha durban anc marching politics |
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Blood For Buthelezi - South Africa Oct 1995 Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi is defying South Africa's Government of National Unity. Buthelezi's bid for an autonomous Zulu region still remains a grave threat South African stability. The region is a patchwork of ANC and Inkatha no-go areas enforced by violence and death. We feature an interview with Buthelezi as he denies responsibility for the violence; attacking Mandela and the central government as communists. On Shaka Day joyful Zulus dance for one of the region's most powerful warlords. But in the rural areas the slaughter continues. Interview with a survivor of the Springvale massacre where 11 people died. Shocked colleagues attend the funeral of 4 policemen murdered by a mob on an isolated highway. A Durban lawyer accuses the Inkatha Freedom Party of recruitment through fear. This province is the key to South Africa's future and the means for its destruction Tags: Buthelezi Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu South Africa National Unity |
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Crime in South Africa This video examines economic and political developments in South Africa from the late 1970s to provide one explanation as to why crime in South Africa is so high. Beginning in 1976 South Africa experienced the first of three major balance of payments induced recessions that marked the 1976-94 period. That recession, as one would expect, threw millions of mostly black labourers out of work. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/english/find21.htm http://countrystudies.us/south-africa/60.htm Around the same time the ANC escalated its opposition to the National Party government in South Africa. By the mid 1980s most South African townships resembled war-zones between the security forces, the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party. The violence that the conflict between the ANC, Inkatha, and the South African police as well as affiliated and unaffiliated pro-government and anti-government death squads brought to the townships made these areas extremely unsafe for their inhabitants -- the black majority in South Africa. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963332-1,00.html http://www.hrw.org/reports/1991/southafrica1/5.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/06/southafrica.topstories3 Another interesting event occurred in the 1980s. From 1980 to 1990 the population of South Africa leapt 56 percent from 24,261,000 to 37,944,000. This is larger than the population increase in any decade before or after. In terms of the PER CAPITA homicide rate, the 1980s were also the most violent decade in post-war South African history (see my video entitled Crime in South Africa). The 1980s were more violent than any decade before or after. http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/CRIMEINDEX/99VOL3NO2/Cemocratic.html So why did the population also spike in this decade? People who had lost their jobs would normally seek to find new employment. But South Africa had a policy called "influx control" until 1986. Blacks without a job could be forcibly dumped in one of 10 designated "homelands". Some 3.5 million people were forcibly removed from their residences and relocated to designated "homelands" throughout the duration of this policy. Unemployed blacks living in townships had a reason to not seek new jobs for fear of being stopped by police, arrested and forcibly relocated. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa081.html Furthermore it was not very safe for blacks to leave their homes due to the violence of the ANC, Inkatha, the state security forces and the death squads. So blacks who lost their jobs during the recessions of 1976 -- 1994 would have mostly stayed at home. The population spike of the 1980s may have been caused by blacks staying at home having more children -- planned or unplanned. The children growing up during this time period would have lived in an environment where violence was rife and people were killed all the time. Young children seeing such violence would have been permanently scarred. By the late 90s these children became teenagers. Their education was limited as school attendance in the townships from 1976 -- 1994 was low, due to the political violence. Many schools were burned and school children were arrested by the state security forces for protesting against apartheid. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDD153CF933A25756C0A961948260 Uneducated and exposed to violence from birth, how would these children have turned out? They would become as violent as the environment in which they were raised. The persistently high level of crime in South Africa is in part due to crimes committed by this 1980s generation who were raised without schools and safety. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=331500&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ Tags: south africa suid afrika die nuwe crime apartheid violence ANC Inkatha National Party death squads terrorism |
User: Hansie0Slim |
New South Africa - Myth of Power Sharing The reason a majority of white people supported the then-National Party's referendum calling for an end to apartheid rule, was because they believed they would have a place in the new South Africa, said Buthelezi. "If the majority of white South Africans had envisaged in the early 1990s the way affirmative action and racial classification would come to dominate the post-apartheid labour market, few would have voted 'Yes' in Mr [FW] de Klerk's watershed referendum on constitutional reform," he said. The government's reckless implementation of the affirmative-action policy is forcing many white people to leave the country, creating a skills shortage crisis, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Thursday. "We need to grant white South Africans a meaningful stake in the existing order ... not only does this make economic sense, it is also in line with our vision of a non-racial South Africa of the struggle days," he said. Load shedding, yes - power sharing, no. Thank you to user HansDons, for providing this video clip from the film "Pionne". Tags: South Africa Suid Afrika Afrikaans Boer De Klerk |
User: ngiyaxolisa |
Inkhosi Sikeleli at Isandlwana Lodge-SA Anthem The Zulu staff at the beautiful Isandlwana Lodge render a heartfelt performance of the first verses of the South African national anthem- Inkhosi Sikeleli. This is the part banned during the time of Apartheid as it became something of a rallying song of the ANC (but not the Inkatha I believe). Anyone? Extraordinary vocals for amateurs, but there seems to be a lot of that talent in Zululand. Please comment-- I've got a lot of footage and would like to give you what you want to see if I have it. Tags: kzn kwazulu natal Isandlwana inkhosi sikelel anthem Zulu Zululand |
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Black Apartheid in South Africa This video shows how the black activists and leaders misled their people during the anti-apartheid struggle, promising them liberation from poverty. The truth is that they merely manipulated the masses, mobilizing them to provide their leaders with an easy ticket to power and riches. The numerical supremacy of black people meant easy victory through mere "head counting" rather than the true spirit of democracy, that relies on effective opposition to provide successful government. Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) reaches much further than the affirmative action programmes in other countries. It sets quotas for black ownership of companies across all economic sectors in South Africa. Since the ANC assumed government in 1994, a loss of skills and experience on a massive scale in the public sectors (electricity supply, health care, water & sewage management etc.) combined with huge salaries and bonuses awarded to managers who were appointed based on race, rather than qualifications and experience, has resulted in extreme inefficiency and disruption. So far, the large influx of foreign investment capital since 1994 has allowed the country to absorb this squandering of resources while still maintaining economic growth. However, this video shows the growing resentment against the ANC government for their inability to translate South Africa's economic growth to job creation on a large enough scale, to combat widespread poverty effectively. The ANC has made the mistake of empowering from the top down. They demonstrate a monumental lack of ability to prioritise, spending millions on celebrations, fighter jets, change of street and city names - failing to address the issues closest to people's hearts: unemployment, violent crime and AIDS. Few feel safe in their own homes, and those who can afford it, transform their homes to virtual prisons to try and protect their families. This is not real freedom. The new, "Black Apartheid" is a far cry from the "non-racial" South Africa promised by the ANC in the lead-up to the 1994 democratic elections. The government's reckless implementation of the affirmative-action policy is forcing many white people to leave the country, creating a skills shortage crisis, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Thursday. "We need to grant white South Africans a meaningful stake in the existing order ... not only does this make economic sense, it is also in line with our vision of a non-racial South Africa of the struggle days," he said. The reason a majority of white people supported the then-National Party's referendum calling for an end to apartheid rule was because they believed they would have a place in the new South Africa, said Buthelezi. "If the majority of white South Africans had envisaged in the early 1990s the way affirmative action and racial classification would come to dominate the post-apartheid labour market, few would have voted 'Yes' in Mr [FW] de Klerk's watershed referendum on constitutional reform," he said. Tags: Black Economic Empowerment Affirmative Action South Africa |
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Digger - Shortkuck Live At Presing - 2003 Tags: Digger Inkatha |
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SOUTH AFRICANS GO BERSERK IN KILLING SPREE South African troops have been deployed for the first time in an effort to stop attacks on foreigners that have left 42 dead and forced thousands to flee. Soldiers backed police in early morning raids at three hostels in Johannesburg, arresting 28 people and seizing drugs, arms and ammunition. This is the first time soldiers have been used to stamp out unrest in South Africa since the 1994 end of apartheid. Some 15,000 people have sought shelter from the attacks. Attacks have been reported in North-West province for the first time, after violence in Durban in recent days. There were also attacks in the north-eastern Mpumalanga province. "Two buses were burnt last night and one Mozambican guy was shot. He is in hospital," said police spokeswoman Sibongile Nkosi. Police in Johannesburg say the situation there has become calmer. The medium-sized mining company DRDGold said two of its workers killed on Tuesday - one of whom was South African - had died in violence in the Ramaphosa township near Johannesburg. The screams of the burning Mozambican still haunt me... I have never seen such barbarism The workers were from the East Rand proprietary mine where the company said more than half of the miners on Thursday's day shift had failed to report for work. Almost a third of the mine's semi-skilled workers are foreign. Miners' union officials have been discussing the disruption with representatives of the Mozambican workforce. Meanwhile, Mozambique has provided buses to take about 9,000 people home. The BBC's Karen Allen saw chaotic scenes and scuffles at a Johannesburg police station, as Mozambicans tried to scramble on board buses to take them home. Leonardo Boby, deputy national director of migration, said about 3,000 people had returned to Mozambique each day this week. Some Zimbabweans are also going home, preferring to risk the violence there than stay in South Africa. One Zimbabwean woman told the BBC she had decided to return home from Johannesburg after seeing a series of xenophobic attacks. The 36-year-old woman said she had seen an armed gang douse a Mozambican immigrant with petrol and throw him into his burning shack. "The screams of the burning Mozambican still haunt me. When I close my eyes to try to sleep, I see the man screaming for help. But no-one helps him," she said. "I have never seen such barbarism." The director general of South Africa's National Intelligence Agency, Manala Manzini, said on Thursday that the attacks were unleashed by movements that supported the apartheid government. The unnamed groups had delivered weapons to hostels in the townships, he said. Correspondents say he is believed to be referring to the Inkatha Freedom Party, whose members are mainly Zulus. It has denied any role in the violence. SOUTH AFRICA Foreign population: 3-5m Majority from Zimbabwe, also Mozambique, Nigeria Total population: 49m Unemployment rate: 30% How can S Africa end the violence? Tensions erupt in city of promise Mr Manzini's comments were echoed by the minister of intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, who said there were groups that had what he called their own political agenda. "There was organisation... we have names of people who called meetings," he said. The secretary general of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Kgalema Motlanthe, has said that many of the immigrants were able to get jobs in South Africa because they were better qualified than locals, whose education was disrupted by apartheid. He said this was a cause of envy from South Africans, who needed to acquire the skills that would enable them to make a living. The violence began on 11 May in a township north of Johannesburg, before spreading to the city and the surrounding region. Tags: south africa violence burning immigrants |