2017: PRETORIA WEST RACIAL BATTLE BETWEEN BLACKS & WHITES
6 Pics: When South Africa was White and VIBRANT! - The Hanging building!
This building still exists in Johannesburg. It was already built and looking great in the mid-1980s when I came to work in Johannesburg. Someone back then told me that the floors of this building are hanging. I did not quite know what to think of it, but its design is strange and when you look at the bottom, youll see the whole building is held up by a central column. (Just like those buildings of 911).
In 2017, in Pretoria West, the ANC moved 200 blacks into some houses they had repossed from white owners. These blacks were moved into a lower class, poor white suburb and the blacks were causing crime. This resulted in the only front clash between blacks and whites that I know of in South Africa. The whites decided to toyi toyi. They formed quite a large crowd and they began to blockade a main road in Pretoria West. They threw rocks all over the road and started burning tyres. This was late in the evening.
The blacks and whites fought each other with their fists and they were throwing rocks at each other. Large numbers of Police came. The whites called for Reinforcements from other parts of Pretoria and even Johannesburg – but none came, despite promising to come.
The animosity was most intense on a Friday evening I think. But it carried on for more than one day.
I think a white man was killed. People were hurt. The whites claimed, to me, that they might have killed a black. I don’t really think it was true.
The whites put such pressure on blacks, that most of the blacks packed up and left within a week.
I went to Pretoria West a day or so later, and I spoke to the people who were involved. I walked with them to the scenes of the racial fighting and I took many photographs of it. I questioned them at length.
However, once the blacks were gone, they hit back with an intense crime wave on the suburb which lasted about a year. The whites, being quite poor, had no armed response service so they had to patrol the streets themselves. The Police also never helped them. They had to catch the black criminals, physically themselves. They took them to the Police station and many times the Police would let them go. Eventually after about a year, the crime wave died down and the area is peaceful now.
Ten Years After Apartheid (1994-2004): The Raw Facts
This is an article I wrote in 2004, exactly 10 years after hideous Black rule descended upon us. In here are lots of statistics and short bullet points showing the nightmare that South Africa had descended to under Black Communist rule.