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on Mon Sep 7 01:17:20 2009
edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy. MSM turned Mandela into a big hero, but this is his true legacy—same as his communist "brother" Mugabe.
Maily Dail
South African government demands answers over Canada's 'racist' decision to give white man asylumBy Ian Evans
Last updated at 1:03 AM on 3rd September 2009The South African government has ordered its ambassador to Canada to demand answers over the decision to grant refugee status to a South African because he is white.
Brandon Huntley, 31, from Cape Town, said he had been stabbed three times by black robbers, who called him a 'white dog' and a 'settler' — a reference to South Africa's colonial past based on racial apartheid.
He told the panel: 'There's a hatred of what we did to them and it's all about the colur of your skin.'
But the ruling ANC's Department of International Relations and Co-operation's spokeswoman, Nomfanelo Kota, described the decision as 'disgusting'.
And a statement from the ANC described the decision as 'racist.' It read: 'We find the claim by Huntley to have been attacked seven times by Africans due his skin color without any police intervention sensational and alarming. Canada's reasoning for granting Huntley a refugee status can only serve to perpetuate racism.'
Board chairman William Davis said: 'I find the claimant would stand out like a sore thumb due to his colour in any part of the country.'
He claimed Huntley's evidence showed 'a picture of indifference and inability or unwillingness of the South African government to protect white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans'.
It is thought to be the first time a white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming he was the victim of black aggression said his lawyer Russell Kaplan.
Speaking about black on white violence in South Africa, Huntley said: 'There’s a hatred of what we did to them and it’s all about the color of your skin.'
Huntley first traveled to Canada on a six-month work permit in 2004 to work as a carnival attendant. He returned to South Africa and then went back to work in Canada in 2005 for a year, and stayed illegally for an additional year until he made a refugee claim in April 2008.
He grew up in the affluent Cape Town suburb of Mowbray close to the slopes of the Devil’s Peak next to Table Mountain.
He told the paper: 'If you have got the money, you can protect yourself.'
Most middle class South African can afford 24-hours armed security, electric fences, guard dogs and security beams. However, many whites can’t and are seen as vulnerable to the country’s serious crime problem.
Davis said Huntley’s 'subjective fear of persecution remained constant and consistent” up to the time he made his refugee claim.
The board’s decision also took account of the lawyer’s sister, Laura Kaplan, 41, who left her native South Africa for Canada last year. She testified that she had been threatened by armed black South Africans and said her brother Robert was left for dead after being shot three times and tortured during a violent burglary in 1997.
There are an average of 50 murders a day in South Africa, 150 rapes of women, 350 violent robberies, 40 car-jackings and 220 car thefts.
President Jacob Zuma has said fighting crime is his number one priority and ministers have wanted to give police wider license to shoot criminals, but the high crime and corruption rates remains stubborn.
Barely a day goes past without media reports of horrific crimes where victims are beaten or killed. Black people bare the brunt of most violence in townships surrounding the large cities but they often go unreported.
Many white South Africans have packed up and left, moving to Canada, Australia and the UK, blaming crime and positive discrimination in the job market in favor of non-whites, many of whom received little or poor education opportunities during apartheid.
Davis said the evidence of Huntley and Kaplan 'show a picture of indifference and inability or unwillingness' of the South African government to protect 'white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans'.
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