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Silence of the citizen blogs: Xenophobia
May 19, 2008 — dre12The xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in SA did not come as a surprise but rather as a shock of its extent as perpetrated by those involved. I crawled a lot of blogs and noticed that though the press, and columnists working for them, are avidly blogging about it, only a few private bloggers have expressed opinions on the situation! Here on bundublog.com I could only find one blog posted about the topic by African Trade hub.
The question I ask myself is why aren’t more South Africans speaking out or in the least expressing their private thoughts and or opinions about this situation? I experienced the same situation with the Skielik-murders. The press was having a field day, reporting and blogging,however, private individuals remained mostly silent. Surely public discourse is called for by he citizens of the country instead of the press just towing the politically correct line. Is that not what citizen journalism is about?
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May 20, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hi,
I was thinking the same thing today and I think it’s because people have the mentality of, well it doesn’t affect me so why should I care.
I am sure when middle class South African’s (black and White) are being attacked by mobs, everybody will have an opinion.
Sad.
May 23, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I don’t really know if I should comment at all, as I may just step on some peoples feet.
Is It really true that people of SA thinks “It doesn’t affect me so why should I care”? Is it fair to think that of us South Africans? We Scared! Like Hell! We talk hush-hush, cause we not want to upset anyone and have them after us. We don’t want to be killed because we are “Migrant-lovers”. What the killers are doing is wrong and un-human and South AFrica is being branded as a “bad-place” along Zimbabwe around the World. And only because a few hundred decided they were sick and tired of our Government not DOING anything. Yes! It is true - All the immigrants is taking our work, our land, our food. We barely have enough for ourselves. But as an Afrikaans Speaking South African I am terrified, cause these killers get away with what they doing. What if they decided to attack the Afrikaners as well. They never forgive us for what our fore fathers have done.
I’m going to discuss this more on my blog.
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