Apartheid Did Not Die
Apartheid based on race is outlawed now, but the system always went far deeper than that.
The cruelty and injustice were underwritten by an economic apartheid, which regarded people as no more than cheap expendable labor. It was backed by great business corporations in South Africa, Britain, the rest of Europe, and the United States.
And it was this apartheid based on money and profit to allow a small minority to control most of the land, most of the industrial wealth, and most of the economic power. Today, the same system is called - without a trace of irony - the free market.
John Pilger was banned from South Africa for his reporting during the apartheid era. On his return thirty years later with Alan Lowery, he describes the extraordinary generosity of a liberated people, but asks who are the true beneficiaries of a democracy - the black majority or the white minority?
Chlod. .You really need to improve you're education and inform your self with using appropriate sources. For example: Dr. John Henrik Clarke who explains the Law and Order in African Societies before Slavery.
The sad thing of it all is that white people still go on terrifying us with their ridiculous assumptions saying black South Africans "need them". NO!!!!! we don't but i'll have to give it to white people for making us believe this rubbish all these years because YES!!!! now black people are starting to see what sort of people you truly are and represent.
Nice try, film is very bias.
there's two evils in the world,
1) Money (and money is color blind)
2) generalization bringing about racism (which generally comes from indoctrinated people who prefer point out 1000 people alike instead of the one hidden among the crowd and really responsible)
I wonder what Mr Pilger's posh view point would be if his wife and child were raped and had their throats slit for a cell phone, oh don't forget the common belief among many blacks that raping a baby can cure aids, but i'm sure this is because of apartheid right Mr Pilger.....
No one mentions the atrocities Australia committed in irradicating the aboriginal people, they were considered vermin and one could shoot them via hunting permits.....the last permit was issued in the late 1950's!!!
John Pilger comes from a white privileged English family. That says a lot already....
Typical champagne drinking left wing rhetoric, until he doesn't have that white priviledge anymore.
When you grow up rich like Pilger, your world view is very distorted by trying too hard to not seem to be biased by making articles about things he clearly know little of.
Pilger is someone who appeal to the ignorant as they will swallow all this bias as fact. So what's new?
Sounds like Somalia....an excellent, though esoteric example. An Italian colony from 1880 until it gained independence in 1960. The Italians built roads, schools, hospitals, a university, banking system, Churches and infrastructure. Educated the Somalis and developed the capital Mogadiscio as a beautiful "Italianate" coastal city in East Africa. After independence, the country slowly slipped deeper and deeper into chaos, despair and corruption. The Dutch loved to visit Southern Somalia in the 1960's for business and pleasure on the continent. In 1991, the civil war erupted, and literally tore the country and capital to bits ! The moral of the story....in the absence of the rule of law and order, as opposed by the white man, country after country in Africa (and elsewhere) eventually falls to an ungovernable and wretched place ! This is exactly what white South Africans want to prevent....it may sound racist or seem politically incorrect, but it is a simple fact of life ! The white people of South Africa today cannot return to Holland or the U.K. These are foreign countries to them, and they have no ties there. They are South African, just like people of European ancestry in the U.S. are Americans...100 %. The white man settled, developed and built the South Africa of today, they are literally fighting to preserve what is now theirs, and not have another Somalia on their hands !
We have made a mistake to let our country be raped pillage and burned due to barbarism
It has been very tough for South African Whites, since the
end of apartheid. They are now on the short end of the stick.
South African Charities that help white kids can lose their BEE
Non Profit Status.
In Apartheid you had to get of your butt and go study to get somewhere. No free meals. You have to work for it. Some chose the easy path and went and work as cheap labor. Others went to university and build themselves big mansions in Soweto. Today its nice because the government is giving mahala. Sit on your arse and get a grant. That is what you want. To get everything for free without working for it. If you do not get enough you go steal and murder for it. Apartheid the prisons were not full now they are. Wow talking about locking up the black masses and silence them.
A country with burn downed farms and nothing was handed over 90 years later with a space program, big cities, schools, electricity everything. We build it up for you and like the lazy majority you did not build on it but are destroying it and it will take you less than 30 years to do it. Enjoy!
John Pilger is a journalist not a conspiracy theorist. This is misfiled - should be under Politics. Putting it here shows an editorial bias.
Professor Ali Mazrui remarked that in South Africa, "The blacks got the crown and the whites kept the Jewels". If anything the whites have become richer under the black government, as they have taken advantage of the South African black man's lack of experience in running a country. Now the alliance between crooked blacks, known as tenderpreneurs and white businessman is making ordinary people poorer through high inflation. The exploitation of workers is even worse then under the Afrikaaner government. Crime and drug syndicates operate freely and without fear. Human trafficking is out of control and health care system is in ruins resulting in greater suffering.
Both the unscrupulous whites and the corrupt ANC government are fully culpable.
the maker of this "documentary" is a ignorant, foreign- observer, documenting lies and opinions instead of truth and testimony. I live in South-Africa, and I'm shocked every day, by reports of large scale corruption in the government, and most of all the inhumane killing, in fact, geonoside of the white minority, which are being labled, by outsiders such as this, as bad people, and so doing, not only justify, but support the wipeout of an entire race. who by the way lovingly built the country they are being exterminated in from nothing.
Reminds you of nazi Germany, only this time, the killing is being supported, not condemned by the world!
The 'minority' described in this fairy tale, is no more in control of the country's economic resources, than the maker of this film is in control of my pet fish!
Just think,pieces of paper with idiotc symbols and bright colours scribeled on it could cause so much grief.
You must all understand that SA is becoming a great nation. It will take another 60 years for it to look more appealing but I only know that because I have travelled the world and can see the difference. We just need opportunities and people will flourish. Out generation of poor and uneducated peoples will only develope with opportunity. If you mother was a maid and had no money for you to go to school then you had to work. You become uneducated and so we loose a whole generation. I sponsor on KIVA who gives money to entrepreneurs who no bank would touch. They then pay me back by making a profit. This proves that a little helping hand will start a new revolution in SA. My mission is to provide these gifts! And I dont consider myself rich. Iam a normal guy wanting to help. What do you do?
it shouldn't be long now before the black people try and kill the whites. it is coming and we should be ready. This country is corrupt. I was 2 when apartheid ended and I never even participated in it. Now the youth of today are still blaming apartheid, even though they weren't a part of it either. The schools are blaming apartheid, the government is blaming apartheid because they are too prideful to admit they are a bunch of baboons that have no idea how to run a country. They are going to make themselves bankrupt soon with all the giving of free housing and money for the black people. Apartheid was created because blacks and whites are different in every way, back then there was no robberies, murders because blacks lived with blacks and whites lived with whites. it was not about human cruelty as the blacks like to state, even the ones who weren't in it. Now they are all racists and even sing songs like "kill the Boer", who is more cruel? It seems to me that this government is run by a bunch of m*ron hypocrites. who steals more? Who murders and rapes our families? Who is more after power than peace? who is being cruel now? The black people of south Africa, wake up people! Get ready for a war, it is coming!!
I think John Pilger needs to go back to South Africa and see what is really happening here now. This was made in 1998 and it is 2012 now. This is propaganda. We need to update this doc. First of all the new government is full of elites that live in homes like the ones shown in the doc. They are taking and not giving to all the people black and white. There are over 800,000 homeless white people in SA now and counting. John didn't tell you about the new laws where the the whites are not allowed to work in SA anymore. He didn't tell you that the reason there is no water is because the gov. can't provide. He didn't tell you that all those people sitting around because they have no jobs is because there are no jobs in this country for anyone. He didn't tell you about the high crime rate SA has now with raping, killing, stealing. He didn't tell you that the ANC government promised homes and jobs for everyone if they got into office. He didn't tell you that millions of illegal immigrants are coming into SA everyday, where there is not enough homes, jobs, water, electricity for everyone. The blame here is not on the whites of this country it is on the new government.
in order to stop a revolution and a real power change in south africa the whites let mandela out of prison and he in the process sold out his own for a few pieces of silver and went on his merry way.what is needed in the country is a real revolution and too get rid of those who want to keep them enslaved just like in zimbabwe.whites who try too enslave only understand one thing and that is war so those people should bring it to them.
Yes Racists are all over - I was born and bred in South Africa and have been living in Switzerland for the last 33 years. I realised that we are all human beings - racists are all over the world - not only in South Africa - The whole globe has good people. Actually we humans have both parts in us - the good and bad - its up to us which one we use. I am satisfied with my life in Switzerland but I know that Im a black South African. I feel both countries gave me a lot and Im greatful. Whereever you go - you will always take yourself no country can change your behaviour. You are what/who you are and that has nothing to do with the colour nor your country. Lets all be blessed especially this Xmas time - lets get to know the meaning of Xmas besides the economic part and be loving to one another. Please dont forget that money is not everything and money doesnt have any color - Forgive what happened during Apartheid era and look forward to the glorious future and I know you can make it - You guys and girls are great and have that power to make it - look at the kids you have right now they are so special and very independent and confident of themselves for they know that the country belongs to them and are very lovely and who gave them this love - you gave them that love so dont forget who you are - you South Africans have archieved a lot and Im glad Im part of you but I also respect the others and demand the same respect from them as well - God bless you all. Merry Xmas.
A very great documentary,balanced.
England, and Holland (where I live) started all the slavery... And my country disgusts me, my country did so mutch damage to the world.
I never sing the Ducth national anthem, F*ck patriotism!
Make love, not war.
Sadly. not a goddamned thing's changed in S.Africa. Sick, disgusting degenerate whites destroy EVERYTHING they come in contact with!
Patrice Motsepe (Black South African), net worth over $3.3billion - self-made, seems to me the people b****ing about the state of South Africa and the white colonialist should rather just get off lazy a** and work for there money, if he can do it, why can't you???
The fastest growing squatta camp (informal settlement) in SA is WHITE (largely due to companies being forced to fill BEE and Affirmative Action quotas)
Out of a population of around 50mil people, only 14mil bother to pay tax, and yes about 75% of those are "Non black"
You want to chase all the whites out of Africa? That really worked well for Mugabe, his country is falling to pieces, and his people hate him.
Violent crime in this country is at an all time high, and getting worse.
This notion that the "White colonialist" are aggressors and tyrants may be true, but look into history, they are no different to indigenous Africans, Southern Africa originally belongs to one tribe and one tribe only, the Khoi San, Who's land was brutally and savagely taken from them by Migrating tribes from west an central Africa, forcing them into the most arid and unwanted regions of Southern Africa, the Namib and Kalahari deserts.
Long before the white man ever got to the continent, the tribes battled for land, raided each others cattle, and tried to occupy each others territories. It is not a race issue, it is just human nature. And now the "Black South Africans are throwing there toys from the cot simply because the white settlers where better at the game of building civilizations than they where.
I just want to add that I in no way condone nor support any kind of apartheid or racial segregation in any way or form, but this poor me syndrome, has got to stop, not only is it just plain childish, but it is an embarrassment, to yourself, to your people and to your nation (both black and white)
I saw a referral to Malema, a multimillionaire before the age of 30, not bad going for an idiot, maybe you should be asking him for your slice of Pie, as for Nelson Mandela, I'll will always have the utmost respect for the man! And you have anything bad to say about Madiba, it is just evidence that you are ignorant enough to fall for the ANCYL propaganda that they have managed to indoctrinate your tiny mind with.
The only way for SA to ever move forward is to drop the world is against me attitudes and take a bold step into a bright new future, after reading some of the comments, below, and on the news24 forum, I doubt that this will be possible and believe the future of SA will be quite bleak indeed.
its interesting to note that many blacks now look at the apartheid days as better times and that the majority of jamaicans would like a return to british colonial rule. hmmmm