I see that little news about South Africa had been posted the last month or so. How come so many people can post while things are going bad like a month or so ago. Now that everything seems to be calm no news is getting posted! I quickly scan through the newspapers each morning and can assure that lots of news about South Africa do not reach the international community.
Alot of people will claim that the SWC was the best marketing we could ever ask for. Instead it turned out to be the worst we could ask for! Most foreigners believe that things were made out to be worse than it actually was as nothing happened to them. I have also seen reports from foreigners who claim that South Africa is actually much safer than they were told! I can assure them that they had just been fooled by our "competent" government! The only thing that happened was that crime statistics had been "cooked" by the SA Police Service. I know of incidents that happened during the SWC where some police officers just persuaded the victims not to lay charges. This also happened at a hotel where one of the teams stayed. Money and electronic equipment were stolen from one of the rooms and when the tourist reported to management they were told that if they did not lay any charges, the hotel would refund them for losses. And I'm sure that there were many others like this! I wonder how many more serious crimes were just sweeped under the carpet.
I know I will probably be called a "racist", and just be accused of spreading lies to make the New South Africa look bad. But this is facts! How come before the SWC(and probably will be the same after) police were slow to respond, if they did at all, when a crime were reported. In many cases prosecution were taking years to be finalized with most being thrown out of court because of poor detective work or just because the case were taking too long to appear in court. Come the SWC criminals were being caught the same day and sentenced the next.
I have also seen how more serious crimes and incidents were reported in the Afrikaans newspapers with no mention of it in the English ones. Was it to hide it from the tourist but to still report about it so that they could not be accused of hiding crime? I wish that I were able to post all the news articles that I read every day just to show everybody that all is not as well as they were deceived to believe! The deception of the police and government should be seen for fraud that it is as it is nothing less! Instead of being praised they should be tried for treason!
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