Cyril, take action against crime
Bloodiest weekend And, on cue, our awful, brutal country proved him right, as one of the bloodiest weekends in recent South African history produced a death toll of at least 27 people, with another 26 wounded, in separate mass shootings.
South Africa’s ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, vigorously condemned the insinuations by right-wing groups that there is a “political persecution” against white farmers and that they are the targets of violent murders.
His point – in response to the planting of 3 000 white crosses in Washington, DC, over the weekend in memory of the supposed victims of farming killings – was that violent crime affects everybody in South Africa.
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