r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '18
South Africa - A Reversed Apartheid? (2018) - A documentary shining light on the white boer minority's current situation living in SA. Crowdfunded and made by a swedish political science major from the The Swedish Defence University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDU0xIILKA
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It's dishonest. It's the equivalent of me going into the Appalachian region of America and portraying them as being representative of the state of all white people in America and that they are all oppressed because Obama is the president and because America has affirmative action. It's just as dishonest as using a photo of dog attack victims and claiming they were victims of farm attacks.
The people behind the documentary are known neo Nazis and white supremacists who are part of the global white supremacist movement. They currently have a campaign going on targeting South Africa.
The people featured in the documentary are also known white supremacists and white separatists who choose to live separate) from other South Africans. Volksteun is a Front National project. They weren't forced to live the way they do and their ideology is still the same as what they had during Apartheid. There' a long list of far right white separatist and neo Nazi groups in South Africa that have been active since Apartheid: AWB, Front National, Die Suidlanders, Boere Beskermings Forum, Geloftevolk Republikeine, die Verkenners etc.
It's not an honest portrayal of either poverty in the white community or of poverty in South African in general.
In South Africa today uneducated whites still earn more than university educated blacks.
At top management level, 68.5% of positions are occupied by white South Africans which is more than six times their economically active population
Most whites in SA still earn 6 times more than blacks
Whites have the lowest unemployment of all racial groups, lower than most European countries.
White South African murders rate is at the European average and whites are 8.9 times less likely to be murdered than black people.
In 2016, 71 people were murdered on farms. This includes all people, irrespective of race, whether they owned the farms, were employed on the farms, or just passing through. It also includes smallholdings, which are mostly inhabited by black people and far more numerous than the large farms owned by white South Africans. 810,000 people in South Africa work on farms. Note that the vast majority of these people are black. That's a murder rate of 9.1 per 100,000. This is more than 3 times lower than the general murder rate of 34.4 per 100,000 - and we're not even talking about white farmers, we're talking about every single person who was killed on a farm.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41807642
Dan Kriek, the president of Agri SA, the country's largest and most influential agricultural organisation, has debunked Afriforum's whitewashed statistics.
The fake "white genocide" narrative relies on statistics from Afriforum that originate with the Transvaal Agricultural Union who don't split victims by race, yet right-wing news outlets take them and say that they were all white.
Just a few days ago a black-owned farm was attcked and burned down but the internet was abuzz with white genocide claims relating to it.
Farm murders of all races have been declining for the last 20 years and are half what they were 20 years ago.
I could go on but I think you get the point.