Protesters gather at Picadilly Circus
More than 400 protesters marched in downtown London Saturday afternoon to bring attention to the out-of-control crime situation in South Africa.
The march started in Piccadilly Circus in downtown London. Protesters, mostly South African ex-pats and Brits, wore red t-shirts to symbolize the blood split in the thousands of violent crimes that have taken place since the ANC took over the country in 1994.
The color red took on a second meaning, according to rally coordinator Ivan Cornelius. “The color in itself also means STOP, as in ‘stop the crime’,” he said.
Ivan Cornelius builds cross against plasmoorde
While the theme of the rally was to raise international awareness of all crime in South Africa and not only against one section of the population, some protesters did carry posters highlighting the fact that more than 3,400 White farmers have been killed in the country. Cornelius himself created a large white cross with the words, “Stop Farm Murders: 3400″ written on it.
The hour-long static march ended in front of the South African embassy, where placards and white crosses representing crime victims were placed on its doorstep.
Outside the SA Embassy
South African news outlet SABC, which is run by the ANC-run government, briefly reported on the rally, incorrectly putting the number of protesters at 250.
Saturday’s march marks the second protest against South African crime this month, the first being a silent rally against Boer Genocide which was held last weekend.
Because that rally focused specifically on Boer Genocide, the flags of the old Boer Republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, were flown. Saturday’s rally was about all crime in South Africa and only the flag of the “new” South Africa was allowed to be flown.
Both rallies were peaceful events, with a small police showing at Saturday’s event and no law enforcement present at the one held last weekend.
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south afrika is a lost cause now, its time to wreck the US, helllllllooooooooooo afrika……
goodbye amerika………….
South africa was a lost cause because of braais, boerevors and too much rugby
Time to move on, like the boers ancestors who left europe because of persecution from the catholics in holland and belgium its time to move on, if not they will end up like their ancestors did in europe, today it is even easier to move on, all they have to do is pack their things and get on a plane to another country
The blacks aint the problem in south africa its the white mans mentality in south africa, the suffering is caused by whites who let blacks take over the country
Its that simple, they didnt have to but they let them have it, move on! there are other places to go to.
Afrikaaners and boere are too stuck in their ways, if they could have it, they would not even have electricity in south africa nor development, they squabble amongst each other like no other tribe on earth, their suffering is self inflicted.
@ john: As a Boer myself and having lived in SA for more than 32 years, you are unfortunately correct.
Attempts at uplifting some of the colourful tribes, allowing them to enter the country by the millions and rather having maids and gardeners do the not-so-nice chores have all resulted in the average white South African digging his own grave.
We should have forced the separate homeland issue so all tribes could govern themselves. Including Boers.
The main issue is that its easy to complain and even all the Boere today still complain, yet have a look at their farms, they will quickly employ zims and mozambiquens to do the work, we never learn our lesson, when i dont know.
The same is happening in America right now, it will just take longer to see what we have gone through in south africa
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