#south african apartheid

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Trump signs order prioritizing US ‘resettlement’ of white South Africans over ‘discrimination’

After years railing against immigrants coming to America, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to prioritize the U.S. resettlement of white South African “refugees” suffering from what he called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”

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Anti-Apartheid Movement poster, International Defence and Aid Fund, London, 1978

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Wild Wikipedia article about Elon Musk’s grandfather

Perhaps this is why Wikipedia is his new favorite target

“Haldeman was a supporter of South Africa's apartheid policies and the ruling National Party of South Africa, telling a reporter for the extremist Die Transvaler newspaper, a tool of the Nazis in South Africa during World War II: “Instead of the Government’s attitude keeping me out of South Africa, it had precisely the opposite effect—it encouraged me to come and settle here”.

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Chris McGreal at The Guardian:

Jimmy Carter’s terminal illness reignited a bitter dispute over accusations the former president was antisemitic after he wrote a bestselling book likening the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories to South African apartheid. Prominent American supporters of Israel lined up to denounce Carter and the book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, when it was published in 2006. Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, called the former president a “bigot”. Deborah Lipstadt, who is now the Biden administration’s special envoy against antisemitism, accused him of having a “Jewish problem”. Alan Dershowitz, the US constitutional lawyer and ardent advocate for Israel, said Carter set out to offend Israelis and Jews. “Jimmy Carter’s sensitivities seem to have a gaping hole when it comes to Jews. There is a term for that,” he wrote.

Others did not beat around the bush and called Carter an antisemite. Pro-Israel pressure groups placed ads in the New York Times accusing Carter of facilitating those who “pursue Israel’s annihilation” and claiming he was “blinded by an anti-Israel animus”. But nearly two decades later, the book looks prescient given that leading Israeli politicians and major human rights organisations now accuse Israel of imposing a form of apartheid on the Palestinians in breach of international laws. News that Carter had entered hospice care at the beginning of the year prompted calls for critics to apologise for the abuse, drawing an admission from at least one critic. Among those outraged by Carter’s book in 2006 were members of the former president’s own foundation, which has built an international reputation for its work on human rights and to alleviate suffering. Steve Berman led a mass resignation from the Carter Center’s board of councillors at the time. Earlier this year, Berman revealed that he later wrote to Carter to apologise and to say that the former president had been right. “I had started to view Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians as something that started in 1967 as an accident but was now becoming an enterprise with colonial intentions,” Berman said in his letter to Carter. Shortly before Carter’s death, Peter Beinart, described as “the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation”, said the time had come for the former president’s critics to apologise for the “shameful way that the book was received by many significant people”.

When the late Jimmy Carter released his Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid book in 2006, the book’s release drew a lot of controversy because it called out Israel’s occupation of Palestine and compared their situation to South Africa’s highly controversial and racist Apartheid policies aimed at non-Afrikaner South Africans, especially the Blacks.

Turns out that Carter was well ahead of his time in calling out Israel Apartheid before it became a mainstream issue in some parts of the left in the US.

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Not surprised that mossad and Israel are once again terrorising an African woman. They’re probably distraught that she’s too old to be given non consensual birth control injections. It’s an undisputed fact that Israel sees African people and countries as hut-dwelling, backroads sub- human terrorist cockroaches but we dragged their Zionist asses to the icj and won and we’ll do much fucking worse if those white demons try that shit with us. Threatening one of us is threatening all of us and making an enemy of one of us is making an enemy of all of us. We refuse to be bullied and intimidated by people who supplied weapons for the Rwandan genocide and who wanted to provide the apartheid government with nuclear fucking weapons. South Africa and Africa as a whole have been victims to white supremacy and colonialism for too long to let any people who get skin cancer at the slightest exposure to sunlight victimise us.

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- General history

- Letters from his time in prison (available to borrow)

- His autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom” in Illustrated Format

- A short history of South African apartheid

- More history, as well as links to posters, photos, documents, and books made during the time on the subject

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How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

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Elon Musk’s PayPal mafia

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Open The Cabinet And Look Inside

And so it begins … Trump’s nominees for cabinet positions have had little or no trouble being confirmed by the cowardly ass-kissing Republican senators in Congress and are now in a position to begin further destroying what’s left of the United States.  A couple of them crossed my radar this morning and brought my first grrrrrrrrrowls of the day … Initially, I thought that Marco Rubio was one of…

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"People are getting hurt, and just because it's not happening to you doesn't mean it's not happening."

[REVIEW] Non-Fiction Teen Novel - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Image credit: Mark Stutzman

Awards and Accolades

2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography Literary Work

2018 Children's Africana New Adult Book Award

2019 Evergreen Teen Book Award

Related Media

Trevor Noah is a successful comedian. He has done multiple stand-up acts humoring his adolescence growing up in South Africa during the fall of apartheid. This segment of a Comedy Central special provides a brief story of his upbringing, as well as his thoughts on racial categorizations in different countries and how it can be confusing to navigate that as a mixed-race individual.

Plot Synopsis

In his 2016 autobiography, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, comedian Trevor Noah recounts stories from his childhood and teenaged years growing up in post-apartheid South Africa. Born to a white Swiss father named Robert and a black Xhosa mother named Patricia, Noah was "born a crime" because, under apartheid, it was illegal for two people from different racial categories to procreate. Although he is, by apartheid definition, a "colored' man, he grew up with his mother's black family in the subjugated township of Soweto outside of Johannesburg. His mother, a deeply religious, stoic, clever, and cunning woman, fought for Noah to have the opportunities she never did. As apartheid ended and efforts were made throughout South Africa to integrate all races in society, Noah attended private Catholic primary school and a high-quality secondary and high school. After graduating, he made friends with another boy from the infamous Alexandra neighborhood and begins selling bootleg CDs, video games, and any other products their crew could get their hands on. He begins DJ'ing in Alexandra, and even gets booked to play in richer neighborhoods and suburbs of Johannesburg. Unfortunately, the DJ and hustling jigs are up when cops bust a party and one of them fires a gun at his computer, ruining the hard drive and washing Noah's music library down the drain. This, along with the consequences of other shenanigans (like spending a week in jail) pushes Noah to want a better life for himself. He ends up traveling the country and becoming a successful comedian.

Near the end of the novel, Noah heads back in time to recount his mother's marriage to an abusive man named Abel. Patricia gives up everything to support Abel's mechanic business, but he ends up drinking away all their profits, leading the business to close. After having two children with Abel, and after watching him drink their livelihood away, Patricia divorces him. Years go by with peace until, while Noah is getting his comedian career started, Abel shoots Patricia out of revenge for leaving him. Patricia, through some miracle that she credits her devotion to God for, survives the shooting. From this, Noah learns that he could have easily slipped into the exact cycle of violence he witnessed Abel enact on his mother, if it weren't for his mother's sacrifices and support.

Review

Born a Crime is a lesson on apartheid South Africa. Learning about apartheid from the perspective of Trevor Noah--a man classified as colored, born to a white father, raised in poverty by his black mother--is eye-opening. Knowing that Noah is a famous comedian today makes his upbringing even more inspiring. Noah artfully navigates complex issues of systemic, interpersonal, and institutional racism, alongside the its consequences like murder, violence, and poverty, all with a comedic twist. It feels as though each small vignette of his life is included for a particular reason--it's understood that he learned something significant from all the moments he chose to share.

Teenagers grow up under all kinds of circumstances, including ones that are dictated by their race, ethnicity, and other characteristics outside of their control. Noah is no exception to how difficult being an adolescent is when you are already at odds due to something as arbitrary as the color of your skin or the time period in which you are born. But, Noah's story shows that, in spite of these odds, you can find success in life and humor in every moment.

Credit

Noah, T. (2016). Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. One World.

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🤔 … December 15, 2024 — I can’t really understand how this naturalized foreigner has risen ‘within the ranks’ in such a fast way … initially under the radar (I think) until he bought Twitter and really messed it up.

He brought with him past experiences with apartheid in South Africa. Managed to obtain major governmental contracts. Now he’s making major decisions in association with tRump!!

Was he in another slot of the 2024 ejection ballot?

As if I needed another FIDIOT to loathe!! … 🤔

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[seohyun0306]

My father was born on June 16th 1976 in apartheid South Africa, the exact day of the Soweto uprising where around 170-700 school students were estimated to have been shot dead at a peaceful protest. My father’s family were welcoming a new baby into their family while a few hours away, hundreds of parents’ babies were shot dead. To my father’s family and my family, June 16th is not a day to be celebrated for his birth but a day of mourning whose impact has never decreased in all the 48 years since the massacre happened.

How many thousands of parents in Palestine, be it Gaza or the West Bank, have to grieve constantly for their babies getting massacred, imprisoned, tortured, shot and raped even on the days where they should be celebrating their births? Nearly everyday my asks are bombarded with anon hate and blatant disrespect, ignorance and misinformation about my country’s history, which I no longer bother to even entertain. Disrespecting and ignoring what is happening in Palestine is not only disrespectful to their thousands of brutal deaths at the hands of the iof, but also disrespectful towards every single South African death at the hands of the apartheid government.

There are no two countries as intrinsically connected like South Africa and Palestine and no two entities as disgustingly similar as the Israeli government and the South African apartheid government. On paper, South Africa has been free for 30 years, but in reality we will never be completely free until Palestine is too and Israel is crushed and banished into obscurity like our previous regime was.

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South Africa, 1961

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"The ADL has come under fire in recent years as it has leveled charges of antisemitism against leftwing Jewish groups, Black Lives Matter, Palestinian rights groups and other organizations critical of Israel. It has increasingly lobbied for federal legislation on antisemitism, some of which critics say is intended to target leftwing Jewish and Palestinian rights groups.

It has become more aggressive since the Gaza war’s outset, but its credibility has also suffered – most recently, Wikipedia’s editors found the ADL could not be trusted to give reliable information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The memo is the latest evidence that the ADL has spied on, surveilled or tracked its opponents on the left and right. In 1993, the ADL faced multiple lawsuits and an FBI investigation over a nationwide intelligence network it developed over the span of several decades with an investigator on its payroll, Roy Bullock.

Bullock was alleged to have infiltrated or kept files on the United Auto Workers union, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, neo-Nazi groups, Mother Jones magazine, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP and many more. He also allegedly sold personal information on US politicians and others to the apartheid South African government at the ADL’s behest. The ADL initially backed the apartheid regime, labeling Nelson Mandela’s party “totalitarian, anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American”.

In the wake of the far-right’s deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally, the ADL, which also tracks white supremacy, claimed it did not “directly” track leftwing groups. However, it put up a post on its website around that time encouraging police to surveil and infiltrate anti-fascist groups.

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Delia states in the 2020 memo that he was asked to assess the activist during a recent “JVP meeting”, referencing the leftwing US Jewish group, a regular ADL target.

In a statement, JVP executive director Stefanie Fox said: “It’s appalling, though not surprising, that the ADL is spending enormous time and resources attacking one of the largest progressive Jewish organizations in the country and surveilling African American organizers.”

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Delia included a quote from Rebelle’s social media, in which they express they are “no longer in the business of helping white folks cope with their privilege, nor speaking out against the terrorism of white supremacy or state sanctioned murder of Black and brown folks by the police”.

“As always, remember Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, gender and sexuality is a spectrum, Indigenous rights matter, climate change is real, defund the police, and there is no change without discomfort. Peace upon you all.”

Rebelle said they had been previously targeted by local white nationalists and pro-Israel groups that tried to get them fired from jobs or removed from speaking engagements, but the ADL memo came as a surprise because the group was not involved her work in Indianapolis.

Rebelle said the ADL was “targeting black queer folks”, and is evidence of a larger problem with the organization.

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Fox said the surveilling shows the ADL “is simply not credible as a civil rights organization”.

“They are willing to trample on civil rights, smear racial justice activists, and harm progressive movements in order to advance their primary work: ensuring Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide go unchecked and unchallenged,” she said.