South Africa says Canada 'Racist'

[QueEx]

Persecuted White South African Granted Asylum in Canada

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Persecuted white South African Brandon
Huntley made international race refugee</font size><font size="4">

White South African man has been granted refugee status
in Canada after successfully arguing his skin colour
would put his life in danger if he returned home</font size></center>

Brandon Huntley says he has
been attacked seven times
by black South Africans who
called him a "white dog"



The Times (London)
By Jonathan Clayton
September 2, 2009


A white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada after successfully arguing his skin colour would put his life in danger if he returned home.

Brandon Huntley, from Cape Town, fled to Canada last April. He told immigration officials that <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">he had been attacked seven times by black South Africans who called him a “white dog” and a “settler”</span>.

In a move which infuriated the ruling African National Congress (ANC), an <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Immigration Board in Ottawa has ruled that Mr Huntley's “fear of persecution by African South Africans” is justified</span>.

William Davis, the only member of the board, ruled that the 31-year-old unemployed former salesman would “stick out like a sore thumb due to his colour in any part of the country.”

He added that Mr Huntley, whose sister lives in Canada and who argued that affirmative action policies put him at a further disadvantage, had given “clear and convincing” proof of [South Africa's] “inability or unwillingness to protect him”.

With some 52 murders a day, South Africa has one of the worst crime records in the world. However, the ruling ANC denies it is racially inspired and argues with considerable justification that blacks are just as much victims as whites and other minorities. However, there is little sympathy shown by the authorities to white crime victims who are frequently dismissed as “white whingers”.

• <font size="3">South Africa Slammed Canada's 'Racist' Decision </font size>

Both the Government and the ANC slammed <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Canada’s decision as racist, saying it perpetuated false stereotypes that black people attacked white</span>, whereas both are victims of crime which newly elected President Jacob Zuma has pledged to reduce.

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">“We find the claim by Huntley to have been attacked seven times by Africans due to his skin colour without any police intervention sensational and alarming,” </span>said the ANC’s Brian Sokutu. “Canada's reasoning for granting Huntley a refugee status can only serve to perpetuate racism."

The ruling has struck a chord with many whites, who say that the Government has done nothing to stop a wave of attacks on white farmers since 1994 and is deliberately failing to make public crime statistics in the hope of improving the country’s image ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup.

• <font size="3">White Flight; Brian Drain</font size>

AfriForum, a Afrikaner civil rights organisation, immediately seized on the ruling to try and highlight the issue of “white flight” from the country, which has suffered a huge brain drain since the end of apartheid in 1994.

It asked the Home Affairs minister to appoint a task team to probe the reasons for emigration of minority communities. A recent report by the South African Institute on Race Relations said that some 800,000 whites out of a population of four million had left the country since 1994. It added, however, that many educated blacks had also left, describing such a pace of migration as more consistent with the advent of “widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large scale civil conflict.”

Yesterday, the same organisation said that it was wrong to present crimes against white people as racially motivated, adding that black people were far more likely to be targeted from what is an unacceptably high crime rate.

Ronnie Mamoepa, spokesman for South Africa's Home Affairs Ministry, said the Canadian move was preposterous. “It would have been courteous for the Canadian authorities to contact the South African government to verify this case,” he told reporters. “The allegations are as preposterous as they are laughable.”

• <font size="3">Canada Criticized South Africa Saying its Affirmative
  Action Policy is Responsible for Violence against Whites</font size>

The South African government was directly criticised in the ruling for <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">affirmative action and black economic empowerment policies which, although “there is an explanation for them, are discriminatory”</span>.

Race relations in South Africa are again under scrutiny, with many people arguing the country has gone backwards since the heady days of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration of the Rainbow Nation. Last week, an ANC youth leader said whites were notable by their absence when controversial gold medal winner Caster Semenya, whose gender has been questioned, was given a heroine’s welcome at Johannesburg airport.

“If it was rugby they would have been here,” said Julius Malema, President of the Youth League.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6818096.ece

 

[Cruise]

Re: Persecuted White South African Granted Asylum in Canada

Typical whites.

Whites (Europeans) drain South Africa of its gold, diamonds, and platinum.

Oppress generations of Africans and tear up the land.

Then, turn around and claim oppression when the Africans reclaim control of the country and stop white exploitation.

You've gotta love the white mind.

 

[DragonXJC]

Re: Persecuted White South African Granted Asylum in Canada

However, there is little sympathy shown by the authorities to white crime victims who are frequently dismissed as “white whingers”.

 

[tdotlocs]

Yeah, this was in the Globe and Mail today. 100% FUCKERY!!!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...acklash-against-racist-canada/article1272553/

South African's refugee case causes backlash against 'racist' Canada
By Geoffrey York
Globe and Mail Update
Ruling grants white South African refugee status, citing claimant's 'convincing proof' that he was beaten and unable to find work because of his race

South Africa's ruling party has denounced Canada as "racist" for granting refugee status to a man who claimed he was persecuted in South Africa because he is white.

The decision by a refugee board member in Ottawa has ignited a firestorm of controversy in South Africa, damaging relations between the two countries and denting Canada's image in a country where it was once seen as a stalwart of the anti-apartheid struggle.

The refugee board member, William Davis, ruled that South Africa had failed to protect its white citizens from robberies and muggings, which he described as the "persecution" of whites by "African South Africans."

Brandon Huntley, a 31-year-old South African who stayed illegally in Canada in 2006, after first arriving on a work permit as a carnival attendant, was awarded refugee status after complaining that he was mugged and stabbed in seven attempted robberies in South Africa. He said he was called a "white dog" and a "settler" during these attacks, although he did not report any of the attacks to the police because he "did not trust them."

Mr. Davis said in his ruling that Mr. Huntley would "stand out like a sore thumb" in any part of South Africa because of his colour. He said Mr. Huntley had given "convincing proof" of the government's "inability or unwillingness to protect him." He added that Mr. Huntley would be unable to find a job in South Africa because of affirmative action in favour of blacks.

Mr. Davis ruled that Mr. Huntley had been attacked six or seven times "because of the colour of his skin" and had a legitimate fear of persecution. He said Mr. Huntley had scars on his body to prove the attacks.

(Lengthy excerpts from the ruling were provided by Mr. Huntley's lawyer, Russell Kaplan, who declined to release the entire ruling because it contained personal details about family members of Mr. Huntley and Mr. Kaplan.) The African National Congress, the party that liberated South Africa from apartheid under Nelson Mandela's leadership in 1994, said the refugee decision was racist and alarmist. "Canada's reasoning for granting Huntley a refugee status can only serve to perpetuate racism," the ANC said Tuesday.

A spokesman for the country's Home Affairs department, Ronnie Mamoepa, said the government was "disgusted" by the ruling and the "preposterous and laughable" claims by Mr. Huntley.

"It would have been courteous for the Canadian government to allow the South African government to respond to the allegations," Mr. Mamoepa told South African media.

The ruling, which made headlines around the world, has sparked an uproar in South Africa this week because it touched on sensitive issues of race and violent crime. While many agree that whites are often targeted by black criminals, others are outraged at the notion that whites are "persecuted" in South Africa, a country where they still enjoy vast privileges in an unequal economic system.

Many ridiculed the board member's claim that whites "stand out like a sore thumb" in South Africa. More than four million whites are living in South Africa, comprising almost 10 per cent of the population.

The ruling is "shocking and saddening," said an editorial Tuesday in The Times, a daily newspaper here.

"It says more about Canadian perceptions than South African reality. The truth is that the overwhelming majority of crime victims in this country are black and many of the perpetrators are white."

The chief executive of South Africa's human-rights commission, Tseliso Thipanyane, told the Cape Times newspaper that the refugee ruling was "rather odd" because racist attacks happen to blacks as well as whites. He also rejected the claim that whites cannot get jobs in South Africa, citing a recent survey that found that 61 per cent of South Africa's top corporate executives are white men.

The official unemployment rate for black South Africans is 27.9 per cent, compared to 4.6 per cent for white South Africans.

Stéphane Malépart, a spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, said the board cannot release the Huntley decision or make any comment on the ruling since all of its cases are heard in private and its tribunals operate at arm's length from the government. But he said the federal government could seek judicial review of any decision by appealing it to the Federal Court of Canada.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney declined comment on the matter Tuesday, stressing through a spokesman that the IRB is an independent tribunal that works at arm's length from the government.

"It would be inappropriate for us to comment on a particular IRB decision," spokesman Alykhan Velshi said.

Ordinary South Africans were divided on the ruling, with some saying it was absurd and others saying it highlighted the problems faced by whites in South Africa.

"I will never set my foot in Canada," commented one person on a South African website, condemning the ruling. "It's officially the most racist country in the world."

On another website, someone said: "What a load of b.s. Are the Canadians truly this gullible?"

Several people who had spent time in the Cape Town suburb of Mowbray, where Mr. Huntley lived, said they had never heard of anyone being called a "white dog" or "settler."

But others said they welcomed the ruling, predicting it would "open the flood gates" to a further exodus from South Africa. "The racism has increased tremendously and whites are not wanted or tolerated here," one person commented on a newspaper website.

With a report from Bill Curry in Ottawa

 

[thoughtone]

I myself have had it up to here with whitey claiming victimhood!