4- Sunday, October 8, 1995 — North Shore News

YOU DON’T always get the
news from the mainstream
media, and it’s not a matter
of plots and sinister, secret
control. It’s a matter of the
way the news merchants
think.

Consider South Africa. That old
devil apartheid is dead and what
Globe & Mail writer Jeffrey
Simpson calls the country's “splen-
did president,” Nelson Mandela,
rules the roost. So the word is that
the sun shines every day.

- But I have yet to read anything
in our papers about the near-col-
lapse of law and order there. Nor
have I seen anything about it on
TV. It would never occur to our
television gurus to do such a thing.

To get the details on that so:t of
stuff one has to turn to the minor
press and to private newsletters.
‘One such, in South Africa, is the
Aida Parker Newsletter.

I became acquainted with it dur-
ing my two trips to the country and
her reports have the the ring of
truth about them.

“Democracy” has come to the

Doug

Collins

on the

other hand

new South Affica with a
vengeance. All the ills that afflict
us, afflict it in spades. Crime is out
of control. The “splendid presi-
dent” has promised a crackdown
but he's getting nowhere.

She provides figures, all taken
from official sources.

“South Africa today,” she writes,
“is the world's most murderous
country: 50 murders a day, or 56
per 100,000 of population, against
[8 in Russia and 9.8 in the U.S.

And not just murders but, all too
often, murders of unspeakable cru-
elty and inhumanity.”

The truth, she states, is that
South Africa is fighting for its life.
‘Despite all the curses, insults,
hatred, sanctions and boycotts
heaped upon us in our time of glob-
al isolation, the country never
ground to a halt. It threatens to do
so today.”

The trend began years ago when
F.W. De Klerk the liberal reformer
became president. I reported on the
upsurge in the crime rate during my
1992 visit to South Africa. And
now it is far worse.

Car-jacking was once unknown
there. Today, states Mrs. Parker, it
daily threatens every commuter.

“In 1993, 90,000 vehicles were
hijacked or stolen, thousands of
them at gun point. And although
the drivers may unhesitatingly hand
over their keys, they are often
gunned down in cold blood.”

South Africa experiences a mur-
der every 29 minutes. The number
of rapes reported in 1993 was
27,000, and the police say that for
every rape that comes to their

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place.

“That we have a police force at
all is amazing,” she writes. “In the
first nine months of 1994 there
were 1,005 attacks on policemen;
244 were murdered, many of those
attacks being calculated assassina-
tions, with 163 murdered in cold
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committed suicide.

“On the day this was being writ-
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in various incidents across the
country; another six were wounded.
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police like this.”

Blacks who voted for the
ANCI/SACP (African National
Congress/South African
Communist Party), expecting a
post-apartheid Golden Age are the
main factor in the crime statistics.
But not only blacks.

“Affirmative action has tossed

uncounted thousands of whites on
to the unemployment market and
there is ample evidence that whites
are also involved in gang aciivity.”

There being hardly any real con-
trol of crime, and black-run kanga-
roo courts have reappeared. “The
accused is not infrequently beaten
or stoned to death, “necklaced,”
castrated, or has his hands and fin-
gers chopped off.”

The blacks also engage in
witch-hunts. Literally. A woman
was given 300 strokes with a sjam-
bok after being accused of putting a
spell on a motor car.

“Last year,” reports Mrs. Parker,
“70 ‘witches’ were brutally killed.”

Meanwhile, millions of foreign
blacks are moving into the country,
adding to social pressures. Capital
punishment has been abolished and
official sympathy for the criminal
outweighs that for the victim. The
social and health services are.in a~
state of collapse.

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