Baby Rape

So, I wrote the entry below a while ago but never posted it.

Now I am posting it, because Nobel peace prize winner, Desmond Tutu has just come out publicly and said what's been on our minds for a while now: There is something wrong with South Africa.


I salute him for having the guts to stand up against a government that tells people who complain about crime to get used to it or get out. (South Africa Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi is rumoured to have said "Whites should stop complaining about crime and get used to it" in a speech recently)

here is my post from a couple of months ago:

So, a lot of people are against the idea of exposing South Africa's Shocking levels of violent crime as put forward by the site http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/

I think the general consensus among these "proud South Africans" is that Niel Watson is being too negative and disruptive with his website and not positive enough. We all need to pull together and make South Africa a better place for all.

Well, the way I see it is we've tried that already, for the past decade.
And for the past decade violent crime has been getting worse and worse.
Drastic times call for drastic measures and what Niel is doing is shouting from the rooftops so that everyone will hear what's going on here. Is it a desperate tactic? definitely, but I believe it's high time for desperate tactics.

I just did a bit of research because I thought, hey, maybe violent crimes happen everywhere and we're just freaking out because http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/ is showing gruesome photos of the crimes. So I googled "baby rape stats" to see what the stats are like internationally for this horrific crime.
Guess what?
The first whole page of results was to do with incidents that happened in South Africa. I couldn't actually find one incident of it happening anywhere else!

I think it's safe to say this website is not exaggerating, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with S.A. and the time to do something about it is NOW, and if it means drawing
international attention to it, so be it. The government must act.

Crime exposed in South Africa

So I did a post a couple of months ago that was a bit of rant about the South African Police and their lack of effectiveness and lately I've been getting even more distraught over the crime situation in South Africa.

It's getting bad, really bad. And what's worse is that noone seems to be doing anything about it, we're just sitting back and taking it. Well, until now at least. There's a new site that's just been launched that aims to expose the shockingly high level of crime in South Africa and hopefully scare/embarrass the government into actually getting off their butts and doing something about it.

The idea is that by exposing SA's high level of serious crime (20000 murders per year) on the internet, it will threaten our preciously guarded tourism industry as well as our international image which is being PIMPED at the moment in anticipation of the 2010 FIFA world cup. Up until now the rest of the world has not been getting the full story - they've just been fed the "Proudly South African" propaganda about us being a happy new democracy.

I'm definitely keeping my eye on crimexposouthafrica.co.za from now on.

I believe this is the future of activism and is our best chance at making South Africa a better place for all. (/patriotic chest thumping)

to be continued....