Even white South Africans not safe in London...

thabo_mbeki · (#1 (**permalink**))

SA man attacked in London

London - A South African lost an eye on Tuesday and had to undergo plastic surgery to his face after he and two other people from Gauteng were assaulted by a gang of British youths in the city about two weeks ago.
Grant Nock, 25, a telecommunication specialist who lives and works in London, and two of his South African friends were still dressed in their Springbok jerseys after watching the game between the Aussies and the Boks on television in a popular bar called The Walkabout, when they were attacked.
The bar is particularly popular among Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans in London.
When the friends got off the bus in Southfields, West London, after midnight, they saw about 10 youths drinking beer on the sidewalk. The youths were aged between 14 and 18. They attacked the South Africans with bricks and broken bottles and followed on their bicycles when the South Africans tried to flee on foot.
Nock said the youths told them several times during the attack that they should leave the country "or carry the consequences".
Speaking from his hospital bed on Tues, Nock said: "Going home is not an option at present. I will not give in to them."
A friend of Nock, Lisa Conidaris, 24, who was with the men when they were attacked, said the boys threatened to call their fathers to join them in the assault. "I ran into a block of flats and waited in a stranger's flat for the police and an ambulance to arrive," she said.
She said police were shocked by the amount of blood found on the scene of the attack.
Another friend of Nock, Nick Webb, 26, lightly injured his leg and was hit over the head with a brick.
'Culture of thuggery'
Nock's parents, Peter and Lyn Nock from Honeydew Ridge in Johannesburg, left for London in haste to support their son. They are "very bitter" about what happened to their oldest child. They believe the British government is losing the fight against a growing culture of thuggery.
Although the South Africans believe the attacks were prompted by xenophobia, Scotland Yard said on Tuesday that they do not believe the attack to be race related. They have not yet arrested anyone in connection with the attack, which happened on July 13.
Statistics show that more than 206 000 assaults were reported in Britain over the past year. That is 9.7% more than the previous year. It is not clear how many of these attacks were directed at foreigners.
Doctor Martin Skinner, a psychologist at Warwick University, said the terrorist attacks in London last month made British thugs even "more aggressive and violent".
He said some British citizens felt threatened by foreigners and uneducated youths were more prone to hate foreigners and succumb to racism.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_A...751691,00.html

Mezmerized · (#2 (**permalink**))

Ahah! Finaly, they are getting a tiny wee bit of their own medecine!

I wish it was done to them byblack African youths though....i think that punishment would have carried a better sweet feeling.....smoking-devil

Oh and what do they mean go home?? We don't want them back in Africa anyways.....KMT...this white youths are dumber than Mr Bean sometimes......

Sooofresh · (#3 (**permalink**))

@Mez

LOL

yeah, and I bet you they are scratching head thinking *but we are white*

Johnee · (#4 (**permalink**))

What colour were the attackers? I don't see any mention of colour.

CashMoney · (#5 (**permalink**))

Losing an eye, how terrrible

Blackpresident · (#6 (**permalink**))

Johnee wrote:

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What colour were the attackers? I don't see any mention of colour.

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Whatsamatta with ya... don't you know how to 'read' a newspaper. If the attackers we're black they would have clearly stated so -Especially whenit's a case involving white South African too.

jolyqr · (#7 (**permalink**))

they were white, because if they were black, they would specify it...

Geoff · (#8 (**permalink**))

@ ALL

Drunken thugs are drunken thugs,idiots are idiots.
I cannot see how anybody can be happy with an incident like this....today it was a white South African...tomorrow you,or me.
And whats with all the comments? were the attackers white or black????
does it matter?
Do you know the guy who was attacked? you are just happy he got hurt cos he was white? and South African?
The same idiots had an axe in Liverpool and knives in Eltham,now you applaud them cos it was a white South African?
Shame on you all.

Liloba · (#9 (**permalink**))

Dont want them?

They built all the bloody infrastructure! Its there homeland, for hundreds of years. How dare you insinuate that White Saffies are not welcome there!

They are only tenants. Besides, whatever they built was cemented with our blood, so it belongs to us as well.

The British built Hong Kong, why didn't they keep it?

We are the rightful landlords and we decide who is welcome and who is not.

We do not need to insinuate anything,Africa is our God given land.

They've got to acknowledge this before we can renew their tenancy agreement.

Liloba · (#10 (**permalink**))

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Recent events show that without the rational influence of White South Africans, SAF would be far worse of then it is.

They are equal owners of the land, they made is a respectable economy, built all worth seeing. How can you exclude them?

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I' ve just explained why we can exclude them.

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"Many ANC members continue to associate the free market with the apartheid era. That is the result of skillful propaganda by the previous government, which tried to enhance its standing in the West by claiming it stood for capitalism and in opposition to communism.

Alas, the truth was different. South Africa's economy under apartheid was heavily regulated. Moreover, the origins of apartheid are firmly rooted in socialist agitation.

In 1922, under a banner reading, "Workers of the World Unite For a White South Africa," white miners took to the streets of Johannesburg to protest the increasing competition from black miners. White miners demanded job protectionism, or the color bar. The government of Gen. Jan Smuts used the army, artillery and even aerial bombardment to put down what came to be known as the Rand Rebellion. But, to prevent future white worker protests, the government instituted the color bar.

Now that black South Africans can compete in the market, the ANC government should recognize a vibrant and expanding private sector, far from being an enemy, provides poor people with the best and fastest way to increase their wealth. "

http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-14-04.html

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Blackpresident · (#11 (**permalink**))

crispus_attucks wrote:

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That's disgusting. Saffies in my experience are a lovely bunch.

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In your experience...

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canwe allassume that you're not black then.And where are these SA that you speak of. I'd really like to meet them soI can have my view on them (based on my experience)altered.

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Blackpresident · (#12 (**permalink**))

Geoff wrote:

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@ ALL

Drunken thugs are drunken thugs,idiots are idiots.
I cannot see how anybody can be happy with an incident like this....today it was a white South African...tomorrow you,or me.
And whats with all the comments? were the attackers white or black????
does it matter?
Do you know the guy who was attacked? you are just happy he got hurt cos he was white? and South African?
The same idiots had an axe in Liverpool and knives in Eltham,now you applaud them cos it was a white South African?
Shame on you all.

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Shame on who??? I suggest you don't post anymore if you can't correctly direct your comments to those who warrant them.

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AND how can this be the same ('styled') idiots... In Liverpool it was racism... how can whitesattacking whites be racism. It's white on white crime if anything.

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Ps. You assume that these kidsare drunken thugs... rather than being the average british youth. (And it not like the racist season ..erm, sorry i meanFOOTBALL season has even started either.)

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BLOW ON THAT!!!