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Why this obsession with South African crime statistics?
I listen to South African radio stations daily. And every news bulletin has to report on crime stats. Do we need these stats in order to point finger or do we need it to makes ourselves believe that the government wants to be open about it? Apartheid restricted the mobility of a person. Now that everyone can go anywhere, isn’t it obvious that the crime stats will increase? And why is white-collar crime almost never mentioned in these stats?
Guys, please answer the question and don’t submit to an overwhelming desire to attack any person or government. The question is on obsession. Disregard my first comments and direct yourself to the question.
I agree with stingray.
Apartheid was an invisible fence, that “protected” the white man.
he didnt care what the other 75% of the population got up to, as long as it didnt involve any other white people it was fine.
Crime was also only ever reported in the paper, on the news or to the police, if a black person hurt a white one, and then it was twisted into propoganda eg “This is why we keep these black people away, cause look what they do”
Black on black crime was never reported (and the police ignored it) cause no white person cared, and White on white crime was never reported, cause that would prove that the white man isnt the holy angel he makes out to be.
When apartheid ended, these invisible fences came down, and freedom of speech became possible.
Suddenly we could hear about all the crime (that had been there all along to begin with) of 100% of the population, not 25%.
Of course white supremist hoping for the return of apartheid would say: “Look at the terrible crime”
but it had been there all along, in the homelands and the slums, and now people are pissed off, cause the problem they ignored so long had come back to bite them in the @ss!
We can point a finger at the current goverment for not doing enough for our security, but it is not their fault the crime is there to begin with.
And to get back to you’re question Porgie, I think in the case of white conservatives, its what the Germans call “saggenfreude”, to get pleasure out of you’re enemies troubles, and in the case of non conservatives, their hoping things will speed up if they moan, and SA will get better sooner.
But the fact of the matter is, all this pointing out crime, and not actually doing something about it is worst, especially with the white collar crime (the scams etc). instead of filling websites with horror stories that chase our foreign investors away, we should instead try and think of ways to make SA better, strickter punishment for white collar crime, education and jobs to get potential criminals of the streets, and out of the slums. And incouraging foreign investors to come to SA. Cause they would help generate more wealth that would help to improve our country.
I realise it is easier said than done, but sitting around simply talking about the bad wont help, it’s time we all start doing something.
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