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Offline TomSea

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South Africans Are Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands
« on: November 30, 2018, 05:00:21 pm »
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South Africans Are Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands
Christopher Clark

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—On a sunny afternoon in late September, a solemn crowd of about 40 people gathered outside a small brick house in the suburban Cape Town neighborhood of Valhalla Park. They’d come for the Salat al-Janazah—an Islamic funeral ritual—of Tashrieq Johnson, a soft-spoken 25-year-old who had been burned to death in a brutal gasoline attack a few days earlier.

In the living room, an imam began to wrap three pieces of white cloth around Johnson’s body, which remained zipped inside a white mortuary bag so those assembled wouldn’t have to witness the extent of his injuries. “He was burnt beyond recognition from the waist up,” Johnson’s father, Adil Masoet, said solemnly.

Once the imam had finished shrouding the body, the men filed into the room, formed a circle, and began to pray. Johnson’s mother, Titi Lama, waited outside with the other women. She preferred not to see the body; she wanted to remember her son the way he was when she last saw him alive, before he was taken from his home by a roving group of vigilantes who claimed he was gang-affiliated and subjected him to a brutal form of mob justice.

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South Africa must have one of the highest crime rates in the world, no matter who you are. That said, 20 years ago, there was a man from Poland I knew and that is where he moved to. I don't know if there are "safe areas" versus what appear to be these huge ghetto types of areas.

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Re: South Africans Are Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2018, 05:44:10 pm »
This is one strain of the lawlessness there.  Another is the all-out black v. white war currently underway (and underreported).
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Re: South Africans Are Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2018, 11:48:20 pm »
South Africa (along with Rhodesia) used to be the jewel of Africa.

Then, about 27 years ago, something happened that changed everything, and put it on course to become the sh*thole it's quickly becoming today.

What was it that happened there?
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