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Racial tensions between black farm workers and their commonly white employers have heightened in South Africa since the murder of Eugene Terreblanche – the white supremacist leader – in the country’s northwest.

Two black farm workers, who were employees of Terreblanche, have been accused of murdering him over unpaid wages.

Many white farmers say they are being targeted in “increasing racially motivated” attacks.

Meanwhile, black farm workers say they are mistreated and exploited by their white employers who are “stuck in the apartheid mentality”.

Haru Mutasa reports from Northwest Province in South Africa.

[April 14, 2010]

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Is this for real?

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Eugene Terreblanche, the South African white supremacist leader, has been killed on his farm in the country’s northwest.

The man whose very name spoke of the apartheid era – it translates as white earth – was one of the country’s most polarising figures.

Police have confirmed they now have two young men in custody, both of whom were farm workers employed by Terreblanche.

They are suspected of bludgeoning him to death following an apparent dispute over wages.

Al Jazeera’s Azhar Sukri reports.

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Watch Isaiah Washington and anchorman, Ron Claiborne discover their African roots on Good Morning America.

To trace your DNA and find your roots, visit www.africanancestry.com.

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I do NOT own the song. ull rights belong to Sony Music Entertainment and the artists.

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SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID

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Added: December 12, 2007
SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID

The series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg’s most dangerous quarters to investigate.

Friday 13 October 2006 7.35pm
Sunday 15 October 2006 4.35am (R)

Reporter Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Director Robin Barnwell begin their film on the Zimbabwean border with a group of Zimbabweans as they begin a long journey to Johannesburg. The South African police stop them but let them go in exchange it is claimed, for a bribe, which the people smugglers claim is routine.

The Zimbabweans say they are fleeing a collapsing state, where President Mugabe’s policies have driven the economy into crisis and where earning enough to feed their families is impossible. However, the South Africans blame them for a crime wave and accuse them of causing unemployment.

White farmers in the Limpopo border region tell Unreported World that the immigrants are perpetrating brutal farm murders and poaching their game. The team films several farmers taking the law into their own hands by rounding them up, tying them together and handing them over to the police.

It’s not just the farmers who believe these migrants are fuelling a crime wave. The team moves on to Johannesburg and films with police in one of the city’s most dangerous areas. They accompany officers who routinely use plastic bullets to round up suspected illegal immigrants.

Those they catch are sent to the Lindela detention centre. The team interview a group of Congolese men who accuse the guards of severely beating them. Another inmate laments that South Africans have forgotten the support that their “African brothers” gave them during the days of Apartheid and accuses black South Africans of being the “biggest racists in the world”.

The team then travel to the suburb of Diepsloot where the local South African business community has written an extraordinary letter to Somalian shopkeepers asking them to leave. The shopkeepers – who say they’re asylum seekers rather than illegal immigrants – fear they will suffer similar violent attacks to those suffered by other immigrant communities.

A group of protestors gathers, demanding that South Africa should be for South Africans only. One woman tells Unreported World that black South Africans fought long and hard to gain their freedom that these benefits are now being stolen by illegal immigrants.

The team are then allowed to film on board a train returning 400 Zimbabwean illegal immigrants back to the border. Some are so desperate to remain, that they throw themselves from the moving train during the night. Almost all say they will be back in the country within a few days. Given the ever-worsening economic environment in Zimbabwe they say they have no other choice.

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsit

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Lets put H1N1 death statistics into perspective compared with other deaths around the world since January 1st 2009

Music Pink Floyd- Time

This online clock shows death statistic in real time-
http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks2.htm

These stats may be verified at the listed websites.
World Population: US Census Bureau-
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
Population growth rate: CIA World Factbook-
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/xx.html
Prison Population: UK Homeoffice-
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf
Abortions: Wikipedia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion
Mothers dying during botched abortions: World Health Organization-
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/health_benefits_family_planning/FPP_95_11_chapter1.en.html
HIV infection: Avert-
http://www.avert.org/worlstatinfo.htm
Cancer incidence: UICC-
http://www.uicc.org/index.php?id=516
Death stats: World Health Organization-
http://www.who.int/research/en/

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A documentary on the farm murders taking place in South Africa. Why isn’t anybody doing anything about it?
Also see the bottom of this page
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos45.asp
meepo’s website http://www.truesouthafrica.co.nr/

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Lecture 1 of Clay Carson’s Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois. Recorded September 25, 2007 at Stanford University.

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

Complete playlist for the course:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=40E11D5C66CAC48C

Course syllabus:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/History/Syllabus%20Fall%202007b.pdf

More on Clayborne Carson:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/

Stanford University channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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May 2009

The end of the Apartheid regime saw black South Africans gain from democracy and climb the social ladder. On the other hand white South Africans are learning that now the tables have turned, life isnt so easy.

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