We’ve often wondered out loud just why it is necessary to torture women with boiling water, cutting off their fingers, shoving objects into their body cavities, and so forth….and it is not as if we have fancifully created these articles. They are always accompanied by verified reports. Whilst the evidence has always been there, these straight answers really worry me deeply…. http://ignoranceisbest.viviti.com/
Absolutely shocking happenig in South Africa!!!!!!!!! Cancel the world cup before visitors are attacked,
Violent atrocities shown……. please don’t look if you are sqeemish!!!
Bella wakes. She hears a strangled, gurgling sound. It’s the dog, she thinks.‘Peter, there’s something wrong,’ she says to her husband. Noises emerge from the room of her motherin-law, who’s 98 and confined to a wheelchair.It’s 1am. Bella gets up and walks out of the bedroom. In the hall she sees a young man who at first shethinks is her son. Except he’s black, wears a balaclava and is pointing a gun at her.
‘He comes for me,’ says Bella, her hand before her tear-stained face.‘He’s going to shoot me! I trip as I run back to the bedroom. Peter comes to the door but he has nothingin his hand, no pistol. I hear a gun go off. I hear my mother-in-law screaming. I lock the door andtelephone my son. I tell him: “I think they shot Pa!”‘Two men are outside the bedroom window with a rifle. She loads the pistol Peter keeps by the bed.‘I take the gun and say, “Come on! I’ll shoot you!”‘Back in the hall she finds Peter dead, a trail of blood across the kitchen floor. Her mother-in-law Gerda isbruised and beaten.‘I can’t tell you how hopeless I felt,’ Bella says. ‘I will see it in front of me for weeks, months, years.’
Days after Peter is cremated, the attackers return. The survivors are sleeping elsewhere by now, so thegang finds only the dogs in the house. They torture the animals with boiling water before soaking them inpetrol and setting them on fire.I ask Bella for a motive and she says a group of black South Africans who are squatting on their farmlandhave repeatedly threatened them.After the family find the dogs, Bella’s son Piet calls the police. Weeks later the attackers are still atlarge; police arrested one man in connection with the killing but he was later released.I am in her home. The bullet holes are still clearly visible. I ask her what she is going to do.‘If we stay here they will kill us. You can’t say this was a dream, or rewind what happened. They wantour land.’This is Bella’s account of an attack that happened last month in South Africa, in the north-east of thecountry. Her home is a long way from the vineyards and beaches of Cape Town, but South Africa is to hostthe 2010 World Cup and five of the centres for players and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who willcome with them are here in the north.Preparations are in hand but this is against the backdrop of a country gripped by ultra-violence. Officiallythere are about 50 murders a day, and three times that number of rapes. Most victims are poor blacks inSouth Africa’s cities: reported deaths last year totalled more than 18,000.