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SA: President Mbeki: Those who complain about crime are Racist

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Original Post Date: 2007-03-19 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

[This is Mbeki playing wordgames around the subject of crime, now throwing it back at people claiming that whites are racist. Its all rubbish. He’s just avoiding the issue – he wants the criminals to carry on killing us. Jan]

By Angela Quintal and Linda Daniels

The link between racism and perceptions of crime were being deliberately ignored by those who falsely and dishonestly claimed he was a crime denialist, says President Thabo Mbeki.

Writing in ANC Today, he also said there was still a significant proportion of white South Africans that continued to live in fear of blacks.

“For this section of our population … every reported incident of crime communicates the frightening and expected message that the kaffirs are coming,” the president said.

Entrenched racism dictated that “justification must be found for the persisting white fears of ‘die swart gevaar’.

“All incidents of crime, preferably broadcast as loudly as possible, provide such justification.”

Repeating what he had written in 2004, Mbeki said the “fear factor” had always been a feature of white politics.

Mbeki emphasises that South Africa’s unacceptably high levels of crime was not in dispute.

“Nevertheless, none among us should be surprised when, as is customary, those who are determined to avoid confronting the difficult issues we raise in this letter, seek to divert attention away from discussing the relationship between racism and the perception of crime, by falsely and dishonestly claiming that I am trying to deny or minimise the seriousness of the incidence of crime in our country.”

Mbeki asked why the prophets of doom were conducting campaigns around crime and said “the answer lies in the deeply entrenched racism that Africans are Cushites and Endomites, who have since time immemorial, been repudiated by a God who is only a God of the Whites”.

The president again made clear that the demon of racism remained a daily feature of South African life that needed to be “confronted openly and on a sustained basis” to achieve a non-racial society.

Mbeki referred to examples of everyday racism in the work place and in the suburbs which he said had compelled him to again address this problem in his letter.

He had recently received a report from a group of independent investigators who had been asked to assess the cause of a labour dispute, as well as conflicts within management, in a South African company.

This included the use of the term “kaffir” generally in everyday conversation by some white managers, as well as discussions on many topics, including the potential for a “massive black-on-black civil war in South Africa”.

Mbeki also referred to a story he had been told about a white family in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs who had been concerned about the arrival of a black family, given that they did not know whether the new arrivals were kosher and not criminals.

This, Mbeki said, were all indications of the entrenched racism in society.

The president said that as South Africans celebrated Human Rights Day on Wednesday it remained to be seen whether, among other things, “we have the courage to engage in a truth and reconciliation process even with regard to openly confronting the cancer of deeply dehumanising racist stereotypes that developed over many centuries”.

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