The same South African government that falsely accused Israel of genocide, and of denying Gazan Arab Muslim occupiers food and water, was actually doing that to its own people – not for carrying out terrorist attacks, but for illegally mining.
By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine
Western liberals insisted that the ANC in South Africa was not a brutal terrorist organization with strong Communist connections, but a bunch of liberals. No amount of violence before or after its takeover could change their minds.
South Africa’s ANC regime going all in on Hamas only made the international media more enthusiastic.
Meanwhile, the corrupt ANC government had launched a brutal campaign to fight ‘illegal miners’ so that it could control all the money. Some of the miners were gang members, but then so was their government.
And the government decided to do it by denying them food and water until they came out.
This was the same South African government that had falsely accused Israel of genocide, and of denying Gazan Arab Muslim occupiers food and water. Meanwhile it was actually doing that to its own people, not for carrying out terrorist attacks, but for illegally mining.
The bodies are being hauled out, and so far 78 have been identified. The death toll is likely to rise.
Authorities say the miners are able to come out and are refusing, but that has been disputed by rights groups and activists, who have fiercely criticized police tactics in cutting off the miners’ food and water supplies from the surface in an attempt to force them out. The rights groups say many of the miners are effectively dying of starvation and unable to climb out because the shaft is too steep and the ropes and pulley system they used to enter have been removed.
Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of informal miners to illegally enter them to try and find leftover deposits.
Large groups of illegal miners often go underground for months to maximize their profits, taking food, water, generators and other equipment with them, but also relying on others in their group on the surface to send down more supplies.
Rights activists said the only way out is for miners to make a dangerous trek to another shaft, which can take days, and crawl out there. They said many of the miners are too weak or ill to climb out.
The cellphone videos purportedly from the depths of the mine are filmed by a man who can be heard saying, “This is hunger. People are dying because of hunger,” as he records emaciated-looking men sitting on the damp floor of the mine. He adds: “Please help us. Bring us food or take us out.”
South African Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters in November that the government would not help the miners, which they considered “criminals.”
“We are not sending help to criminals,” she said, according to local media. “We are going to smoke them out. They will come out.”
The actual criminals are the ANC regime. But don’t expect the ICC or the UN to do anything about these monsters who starved people to death for mining.
That’s reserved only for those who resist Islamic terrorism.