So we're on the way to north Johannesburg for a training
given by a former Israeli soldier to white farmers.
The farmers feel that they're under attack
and they need the right tools to protect themselves.
We know Israel had close ties to the apartheid government
of South Africa and it seems
that those traditions remain alive today.
GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!
Give him a punch
and I shift to the other side to basically to take my gun.
To basically to be able...
How far does their training take them?
Would they shoot an intruder or would they kill an intruder?
I'm not saying to people, shoot - kill, kill, kill.
We say survive.
Survive, whatever is necessary for you to do to survive.
Why you don't shoot him first?
It makes sense for him to shoot first or not?
I'll shoot him first, sir.
Make sense or not?
Yes, sir.
So why you don't do it?
Do you feel you're more attacked because of your skin colour?
Well, in South Africa it's a skin colour thing.
So you feel like you're more in danger because you're white?
Yes.
Do you think you're the most in danger?
Do you feel that…
within communities in South Africa?
Yes... yes... yes – definitely.
Do you feel there's a white genocide taking place?
For sure, for sure.
It's going to cause a big, big, big war in this country.
Many people think in the outside, it's a crime thing.
The South African people,
the farms, are not suffering from crime.
It's not the crime.
The guys are not coming here -
give me your cellphone, give me your wallet...
and he take the cell phone and take the wallet... and...
Okay? No, it's not that.
But wait, in the training that's what you guys say.
WHERE'S THE MONEY?
WHERE'S THE SAFE?
It's not what they meant.
They're talking about 'give me the money'
but it's not about that.
You know, it's about revenge.
It's about the land and it's about race unfortunately.
The training was quite intense
and seemed to focus as much on attack as defence.
But the claims of these people were given a boost
by a tweet in August by the President of the United States
Donald Trump,
which led to international headlines on the issue.
I wanted to find out who was behind the attempts
to push this narrative and why.
Talk about white genocide used to be dismissed
as the crazy idea of a small fringe group
of fanatics in South Africa, but it's started to gain traction
with the rise of the far-right internationally.
And that's partly thanks to the group that I'm now off to meet -
the Suidlanders.
They've spent months of the past year in the U.S.
building far-right support for their cause and recently
even hosted the racist Alternative for Deutschland.
The Suidlanders think that a race war is imminent
and they are involved in training for an emergency action plan
for the Christian white minority once that happens.
Hello.
Hello Yasmin, how are you?
So we've just arrived here and there's loads of people.
It's looking pretty serious.
They do really bite, he's bitten over two hundred people.
Oh, bark?
Bite? He's bitten over two hundred people?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a good boy.
Very, very good natured dog.
I'm confused if he's good natured or if he bit 200 people.
Are good natured dogs ones... no, but seriously,
that bite 200 people?
I'm scared I'm going to get bit, man.
You know Trump tweeted about the farmer situation.
Yes, thank god.
It was after your trip, I believe?
What's happening in South Africa is barely being reported.
So for us it was a moment of euphoria
when Donald Trump had...
the strength of character to say, effectively, implicitly,
this is not politically correct
but I'm going to talk about it anyway.
We see a big crisis as long as things carry on like this.
It doesn't mean that I privately wish that
all black people would die or something.
It just doesn't mean it.
As I explained to BBC, my first child is mixed race.
I don't regret that for one minute of one day.
Are you still in touch?
Yeah.
Do you have a good relationship?
Our raison d'etre, our express purpose is to function
as a civil defence organisation under international law
to prepare to safeguard the welfare of our people
in the event of a civil war or similar.
And what if black people wanted to come with you
to the safe place? Is that allowed?
No, it's out of the question.
At this point, we set off on the so-called
emergency training exercise with the Suidlanders -
basically a drive around the area in convoy.
We had tried to speak to other members of the group
But the spokesperson, Simon Roche, wouldn't let us.
Something our producer witnessed
would make it clear why.
Earlier you had said you didn't want us
to speak to anyone else because you were worried.
No, it's not that I'm worried particularly.
What I said was we had a strict policy regarding that.
If one of our members said something
slightly politically incorrect
it would be exploited.
One of your members, as in one of the people here?
Yeah, one of the people whose forte is not to represent us
in an honest way.
That's not their strength - some plumber, you know.
[Producer] I saw something that maybe
wasn't completely in tune with that.
What?
A guy – I wasn't even speaking to him –
but there was a guy there who
I think there was a black man just walking past
and he simulated shooting him.
Oh really? That's not a nice thing.
That is...
Just not a nice thing?
Well, no, you know... So much of this...
You may or may not like what I'm going to say to you now.
And it doesn't matter.
It's fine, we don't have to agree on everything.
I'm going to tell you what our experience is.
The people who do that are employed by the state.
So this guy is employed by the state?
The people who cause trouble in our organisation
are agents provocateur.
Do you not want to find him then?
No, I didn't see the incident.
I don't know who he's talking about.
Maybe Liam can point him out to you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I wouldn't know.
I mean, I wouldn't know if he is secretly being employed
by the National Intelligence Service.
What I'm saying is over long periods of time...
this is not the first, the second, the third,
or even the 50th such incident.
Why do you think they do that?
To malign us. To make us look bad.
To make us look worse than we really are.
That's why they would like nothing more than
to discover that one of us has an illegal weapon
or a stash of ammunition.
Or...
Are you armed?
No, no.
Not at all?
No, not at all.
You're preparing for a civil war without being armed?
That could be risky.
There's a big difference between
an illegal weapon and a legal weapon.
So armed but legally armed?
Yeah, I'm not armed now.
Not right at this moment.
But do I have legal weapons licensed by the government,
not by me, by the government?
Yes.
Okay.
We've heard a lot of talk about this so-called epidemic
of white farm murders and even white genocide.
But in this area here behind me of Ivory Park,
there was 108 people killed in the past year.
That compares with 62 farm murders.
Kind of puts things into perspective.
Yes, that's right - 108 people were killed
in just one black township in Johannesburg
compared to 62 farm murders
across the whole of South Africa.
Indeed according to figures by the South African police
re-published by the respected fact-checkers Africa Check,
there has been a steady decline in farm murders in South Africa
over the past 15 years.
From a peak of 140 in 2002
to less than half that in the past year.
Hysteria around farm attacks
has been ramped up at the same time as
a real risk to the interests of white farmers has emerged -
that of widespread land reform.
The 1913 Native Land act
forcibly stripped land from black people,
a policy which was later reinforced by apartheid.
But now
the ruling ANC are considering amending the constitution
to allow for the expropriation of land from white landowners
without compensation
and to redress one of the historic injustices of apartheid
and colonisation.
It's not the ANC, though, but these guys,
Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters,
who have pushed the issue onto the agenda.
The reclaiming of land is one of their cardinal pillars
as MP Tebogo Mokweli made clear when addressing
white farm owners in a recent debate
in the South African parliament.
Let me tell you my brother, from another mother.
We are going to take our land whether you like it or not.
I went to the EFF headquarters in central Johannesburg
to talk to Mokweli about land, white genocide claims
and Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is a racist and he's mad.
We are not going to entertain Donald Trump.
We are not accountable to Donald Trump.
He's not our master.
Well, we visited also an ex-Israeli soldier, an ex-IDF soldier
training and they train white farmers to
defend themselves against attacks
How real would you say this threat is
that they're whipping up of fear
of a possibility of a race war?
There is no war in South Africa.
We are not going to fight them.
They can train and do whatever.
They are not… it's for them... they are alarmist.
So they think that taking land will result in war.
We are going to sit down with them,
we are going to give them our terms.
White South Africans have been raised in such a way
that they are militant in nature
and they were taught racism from the word go.
So how can they turn around and say they are persecuted.
No white person is persecuted because this country's racist.
Racist as being anti-black.
We are speaking English. The court speaks in English.
Everything here is white.
Andile Mnxgitama is the leader of an even more radical group
pushing for land reform - Black First Land First.
They're taking matters into their own hands
by occupying vacant land.
But they're seen as controversial by some…
Bullet bullet, settler settler.
Settler settler, bullet bullet.
The complaint is only because
there's a new black person emerging.
And that black person
hears what we say as Black First Land First.
Black First. Land First.
There's no argument amongst black people.
We must resolve these things first
before we can talk about common humanity.
There are people who claim that actually
the land wasn't stolen.
That they bought it legitimately.
What do you say to them?
They will say that.
Remember in the history,
they used their... white people used their apartheid system
and they were calling us subhuman.
When they get into the land and they find you,
you are their property.
That's how brutal they were.
That's how insane they were towards us.
And it's not true that they bought land
but anyway we are not saying as the EFF
that we're going to chase them away.
We are saying let the land that was stolen from us
be returned to us.
Apartheid - an Afrikaans word meaning separation -
was a system of racial segregation
that governed South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
It was officially made law by the Afrikaner-led National Party
who believed in the superiority of the white race
and the Afrikaners God-given right to the land.
People were separated into four different racial categories -
White, Black, Indian, and Coloured
and laws were put into place
to ensure the dominance of the white race over all others.
These included black South Africans
being physically forced into Bantustans or "homelands".
Their only interaction with the white minority
was when they were being exploited for cheap labour
or being repressed by the authorities.
And of course, non-whites had no political rights.
But with repression came resistance,
and the African National Congress
- including Nelson Mandela -
led the fight against the horrific system
which was eventually dismantled in 1994.
We're back on the road, heading even further up north
into the Limpopo province.
This whole thing's about land and farm land in particular
so we're going to go check one out for ourselves.
Let us keep safe on the farms.
Amen.
We'd visited Jaco and Elizabeth's farm
expecting to see the land and hear from the family.
But soon we were being shown around a museum
in his backyard which paid tribute
to the apartheid-era South Africa.
We are quite really proud of it, I think, especially the whites.
It was the time before the new days here, the Mandela time.
So I think any person is still quite proud of that.
You know, those days, as you can see on the pictures,
they didn't wear clothes.
They were still using hides to protect
and to clothe themselves.
So new European ways of living started getting to them.
Do you feel it was safer under apartheid
or better in that time,
before '94?
Yes, I think a little bit.
We were in charge of many things
and it's better to be in charge
than to be on the defensive sort of.
The visit got more disconcerting
when they began defending Vicki Momberg -
a white South African woman
prosecuted for using a highly offensive word for a black person.
Not once, not twice, but 48 times.
Yeah the woman…
she used a word that we're not supposed to say
for a black man.
It's a k-word.
Okay I can say it because it's on television.
They call it k*****. It's a word like in America - the n*****.
They don't like to call you a n*****.
Before we left, another story.
We heard that Jaco had spent three years in jail
for sheltering two white terrorists from the Boeremag,
a group who launched an armed campaign
to overthrow Nelson Mandela's government
and return the country to white rule.
Their actions included bombing a number of cities
and even a plot to kill Mandela himself.
I feel it's part of the struggle that I've been in
and that's why I don't want to leave...
I think it was worth it.
Do you also feel like it was worth it?
We didn't do anything wrong.
Is it something you're proud of him?
Yeah, I'm very proud of him. Very, very, very.
So who owns South Africa?
At end of the apartheid in 1994 –
85 per cent of all agricultural farmland
was owned by white farmers.
That has decreased slightly today
but the picture's still one of stark inequality.
White people make up less than 10 per cent
of the population and own three quarters of all farmland
or 73 per cent to be exact.
Black people constitute 76 per cent of the population
and own just 4 per cent of farm land.
Who owns South Africa?
The answer's unambiguous.
It's still white people.
Not only do black people in South Africa
have little access to land.
But many are forced to live in poverty stricken
informal settlements, basically slums, like this one.
Thembelihle, just south of Johannesburg.
They live in the shadows of society
and have little access to basic services.
But people I spoke to here
- like Simpwiwe - don't just blame the white man for that.
They also blame the ruling ANC government.
We call it our house but you can see, guys,
this is not a normal place for human beings to stay in.
We don't have taps inside –
I'm using buckets to fetch water from outside to bring it inside.
When I want to cook or want to bath, I don't go outside...
I just use these buckets here.
Sometimes we'll use this bed, three of us
because I've got two girls and one boy.
Two girls will sleep here, the boy will sleep that side alone.
We are not free.
Because you think of the zinc [roof] can fly
because there is a lot of wind outside.
When it rains you want a corner where you can stand
because the water is coming inside the house
but we've got government so I just blame our government
for this kind of life that we're living.
We've seen some pretty incredible and luxurious houses
that white people are living in.
Farmers and in the city.
How does that make you feel as you've been living
in an informal settlement for 27 years or so?
Our government brings services here
while we have these dusty streets.
We're living in informal settlements like this.
So that is only my concern.
When are they coming to fix roads and stuff?
My concern is
they don't see this place that needs services.
Why can't they take that money and put it
into an informal settlement so we can get services?
We want to enjoy the privilege of good services ourselves
as the community of Thembelihle.
We want to feel human.
Walking around the settlement
it was clear people wanted to speak to us
and articulate their frustration at seeing
so little change in their living situation.
Who's going to help us if it's not the government?
I want to know.
Who's going to help us if it's not the government?
Just because there's a long time...
Just because I know it's not even the ANC...
All the time we vote for ANC.
But it's not the ANC.
ANC promise us, we'll build the house,
we'll put the water, we'll put the sewage.
But they never do that things,
from long time we're staying here.
So the end of apartheid was meant
to herald in a new era of economic and political justice.
But here in settlements like Thembelihle
what has actually changed?
South Africa remains to be the most unequal society
in the world where half of the population
live under poverty.
Over 14 million black South Africans
live in settlements like this one
with little access to water, sanitation
and other essential services.
Meanwhile ten per cent of the population,
the majority of whom are white,
own 90 per cent of the nation's wealth.
Apartheid's not over. Apartheid is alive.
The sad thing I think with democracy
is simply that apartheid is now managed
by black people in the interests of white people.
They don't have to go to the townships to shoot us.
They don't have to torture us.
You know, all that...
There is a state that makes sure
that white people live their life in peace
and black people remain excluded.
This is a revolutionary war coming.
I'm a revolutionary.
No one can stop this war
I believe except if there's justice.
No justice, no peace?
No justice, no peace.
I'm not about to start doing a Theresa May.
Maybe just the clapping.
Black First Land First don't believe
the ANC's land reform plans
will achieve meaningful equality
so in places like this they're mobilising people
to take land without permission...
and then building on it.
Here is a good example of what
we will do with the land.
Our people are building here.
They're not waiting for government.
They're not asking for handouts.
These are poor, poor people.
But they are building a community.
This space was not claimed without suffering.
Just this thing.
So white farmers that own farms,
when we come they must not think we are not ready to die.
We are dead already anyway.
If you have no land, what are you?
You are a dead person.
So it's better to die for land so that our children can live.
That's why we're prepared…
land or death we mean it.
Over two decades on from the end of apartheid,
South Africa's economy and land remains largely
in the hands of the white minority.
It's clear there is no white genocide in South Africa.
But there is a very real anger at the searing inequality,
the ongoing apartheid which still exists.
I couldn't help but feel that change is coming in this country.
Not led by the ANC, but by the people.
In that sense,
those among the privileged white community
are right to be worried.
There is a threat to their interests.
The threat of equality.
We eat heads of chicken and feet of chicken.
Who eats the drumstick?
White people.
No, we want the drumstick.
We want the nice part of the chicken as well.
For more infomation >> 【なまざつ】写真好きカメラ好きたちの寄り合い所vol.70【ともよ。】 - Duration: 1:57:23. 
For more infomation >> Distance Education in Zimbabwe - Duration: 3:43. 
For more infomation >> (L'amour est dans le pré 2018) Thierry : L'aventure S'achève (15102018) - Duration: 4:21. 
For more infomation >> Bricoler en s'amusant avec Ben: Soirée ciné de dernière minute| MIGROS - Duration: 1:46. 
For more infomation >> Porsche Macan 3.0 S - Duration: 1:16. 
For more infomation >> Audi A6 50 TDI quattro Sport Pro Line S 286 pk (vsb 20342) - Duration: 0:56. 
For more infomation >> Audi A6 € 5.000 prijsvoordeel 2.0 TDI 190 pk ultra S line Edition S-Tronic (vsb 16712) voorraaddea - Duration: 1:10. 
For more infomation >> Audi A3 Sportback €2.100 prijsvoordeel S line Edition 1.0 TFSI Sport 116pk S tronic (vsb 17104) vo - Duration: 1:13. 
For more infomation >> Découvrez le détail qui montre que Lily-Rose Depp a bien grandi -[Nouvelles 24h] - Duration: 2:35. 
For more infomation >> 5 Astuces pour passer une bonne nuit de sommeil - Duration: 4:38. 
For more infomation >> Vanessa Paradis joue à « cache-cache » à l'anniversaire de sa fille - Duration: 1:19. 
For more infomation >> СИМУЛЯТОР КОТЕНКА МИМИТОС #1 My Virtual cat Mimitos 2 РАДУГАРОГ в новой игре про котенка с улицы #ММ - Duration: 20:26. 
For more infomation >> Smartphone Hidden Camera Secret Tricks - Duration: 5:46. 
For more infomation >> กฏ 3 ข้อของนิวตันกับจักรยาน - Joshua Manley - Duration: 3:20. 
For more infomation >> Marketing audio : la révolution est en marche - Duration: 8:46. 
For more infomation >> #SampthingDifferent, blucerchiati d'Ungheria: «Uniti per il Doria» - Duration: 4:00. 
For more infomation >> Live in the D: A new spin on doing laundry in the D - Duration: 3:50. 
For more infomation >> Live in the D: Big Al's Pizzeria in Dearborn Heights - Duration: 5:00. 
For more infomation >> Live in the D: Jason drops in on Nanna's Kitchen in Wyandotte - Duration: 3:21. 
For more infomation >> Level Up Fitness Jax new Fit 3-D Health Scan - Duration: 3:15. 
For more infomation >> Live in the D: Street Art in Ann Arbor - Duration: 7:33. 
For more infomation >> Pelosi vs. Trump's border wall - Duration: 8:28. 
For more infomation >> Une vidéo rigolote de Ben: 7 faits divertissants sur Noël | MIGROS - Duration: 1:41. 
For more infomation >> Kendra Fershee - Candidate Profile - US House, WV-1 (D) - Part 1 - Duration: 4:49. 
For more infomation >> Charlotte Casiraghi épuisée disparaît complètement des radars : Où peut-elle bien se trouver ? - Duration: 2:12. 
For more infomation >> How to Make a Fire Tornado (A Wee One) - Duration: 5:09. 
For more infomation >> Volvo V70 2.4D Trekhaak/Clima/Cruise/6 bak/P-sensoren! - Duration: 1:13. 
For more infomation >> Le Journal du Web aulnaysien N°12 - octobre 2018 - Duration: 17:02. 
For more infomation >> EL ALFABETO | ABC ABECEDARIO. Cleo & Cuquin I Familia Telerin. Canciones Infantiles para niños - Duration: 2:50. 
For more infomation >> 🔴 [Live] Minecraft bauen PvPFragen beantworten Bauen :D! [Full HD] [HD+] - Duration: 12:20. 
For more infomation >> Lexus IS 300h F Sport Line schuif-kanteldak - Duration: 1:12. 
For more infomation >> 『雑談』初めての夜枠（？） - Duration: 1:00:30. 
For more infomation >> Wie läuft die Berufsschule in der Ausbildung? - Duration: 7:40. 
No comments:
Post a Comment