Yeah having a bad back isn't healthy. That's why i'm gonna look for a back brace tonight at Lowe's hardware store for the job i gotta do tomorrow.
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Yeah having a bad back isn't healthy. That's why i'm gonna look for a back brace tonight at Lowe's hardware store for the job i gotta do tomorrow.
"Bottom of the Heap"
This Tuesday Special Assignment broadcasts the moving story of an abandoned community. Wetravel to the settlement of Second Creek in East London where we meet a group of people who live off the pickings of a rubbish dump. These are people who have fallen through the cracks of our society, surviving off what we throw away. As the local government elections loom, we ask, “Where have we failed these people?”
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Every day dogs and people scavenging amongst the filth and the rot, searching for food and anything that can be reused or resold. Men, women and children fill their sacks with bottles, plastic and tins and carry up them to their shacks, which teeter precariously around the edges of the disposal site. Once sorted, these items can be sold for a few rand to recycling plants. It is a grindingly hard existence, yet some people have lived like this for over thirty years…and little has changed.
Second Creek is less than three kilometers from the city centre and is one of the poorest communities in the area. Yet it has been completely overlooked by the municipality. The only service these people have ever received is tapped water. But each time elections come around, politicians come visiting. They promise houses, jobs and better service delivery. However, experience has shown that these promises may simply not be true. While the Premier of the Eastern Cape has launched an uncompromising programme for poverty eradication, is local government able or willing to play its part?
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".... a better life"
This week Special Assignment looks at the plight of thousands of Zimbabweans crossing the border into South Africa. To escape political turmoil and increasing food shortages, many risk the crocodile- infested Limpopo River and razor wire fences to get here.
We investigate persistent reports that more and more pregnant women are coming here illegally in an attempt to secure South African birth certificates for their babies. We follow two pregnant Zimbabwean women as they travel from the Beit Bridge border post to Johannesburg. 26-year-old Anita Luwish is blind and four months pregnant. She left Harare with her two small children after their shack was destroyed during Operation Clean-Up, President Mugabe’s attempt to clear Zimbabwe cities of shack dwellers and informal traders. After living off handouts on the streets of Musina, the border town near Beit Bridge, the two women and their children head for the city of promise, Johannesburg. But weeks after arriving, we find them begging at a robot in the city centre.
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We also travel with 29-year-old Daphne Mashange who is seven months pregnant. She has a six months visitor’s visa and is hoping to give birth to her first born in a Johannesburg hospital. But the streets of central Johannesburg are dark and dangerous, and full of desperate homeless people. Many survive only off the charity of churches.
For many illegal immigrants, Johannesburg is not what it’s made out to be. They are in legal limbo as they cannot get refugee status and so are open to abuse and harassment. The number of refugees in South Africa is growing and they are considered by many South Africans as unwanted guests. This program takes us into the lives of some of them, as they try to survive in an inhospitable and alien city.
THE GREEN DAM… and other stories of the new poor whites
This Tuesday Special Assignment meets some of South Africa’s new poor whites. Disillusioned, isolated and often ill-informed, they are struggling to understand why they lost their privileges and trying to make sense of the political changes that have swept the country.
Koos Mitton never had it easy. As a child, he sometimes had to eat rotten meat and mouldy bread from dust bins. As a poor white under the apartheid government, Koos’s skin colour was supposed to get him benefits like free education, protected jobs and council housing. The system should, in fact, have propelled Koos from poverty to at least middle class comfort.
It never did. Like many others of a new generation of poor whites, Koos could never escape the poverty cycle. And with the demise of the apartheid government and all its support systems, more and more whites are squatting or living in squalor, struggling to adapt to a changing South Africa. According to some estimates, one in four whites now earns less than R1 500 ($194.80) per month and is regarded as poor. Figures show that wealthy white South Africans are getting richer by the day, but that the gap between wealthy whites and poor whites is, in fact, the fastest growing divide in the country
We visit the area traditionally known as “Wessies” or “Pretoria West” in Tshwane. This is where Koos shares a bed with his wife and five-year-old son in a wooden shack. Koos’s mother and her latest lover sleep barely a metre away in the same single- roomed structure. This is also where state controlled industries like ISCOR used to supply jobs to unskilled and semi-skilled whites – but they closed down one by one and the area plummeted. Here, poverty and its consequences are hidden away from the public eye in back yards, garages and the wooden sheds widely referred to as “Wendy’s”.
For many poor whites living here, these shelters are only a few steps away from the Green Dam… the place go to when you’ve lost everything and have no one to turn to
Nonone should judge anyone elses culture unless they feel like they can add on positive enlightment to the situation.
Fuck al yo Dumb ass stop snitchin shit. Do yal think everyone is gangsta like yal huh? A mother was trying to protect her children and they all got killed 4 that!! fuck that shit, real talk, Like diggy said;A snitch is not someone who calls the cops on a drug dealer. A snitch is one involved in criminal activitie, gets caught, and tells on another criminal to get a reduced sentance. NoT some poor woman.
That's so sad to read about that stuff you posted Ramesh. The world is so cruel and evil. I really feel bad for poor and homeless people because they're the ones that have to suffer the most. Check out these lyrics by Bushwick Bill i'm gonna post from the Geto Boys The World Is A Ghetto song. He spoke about how stuff is messed up for poor people overseas and in america. Here's what he said.
500 niggas died in guerrila warfare in a village in Africa but didn't nobody care. They just called up the god damn gravediggas and said come get these muthafucking niggas. Just like they do in the 5th Ward and the South Park and the Bronx and the Watts. You know they got crooked cops working for the system making poor muthafuckas outta victims cause don't nobody give a fuck about the poor. It's double jeopardy if your black or latino. They got they muthafucking drugs in the slums. Got us killing one another over crumbs. Think i'm lying? Well muthafucka i got proof. Name a section in your city where minorities grew and i'm a show you prostitutes, dope and hard times and a murder rate that never declines. And little babies sitting on the porch smelly smelly. Crying cause they ain't got food in their bellies. They call my neighborhood a jungle and me a animal like they do the people of Rawanda. Fools flee here from their country black and they see the same bullshit and head right back. They find out what niggas already knew. The world is a ghetto.
People, the lady was just trying to protect her family and the enrivonment. You people don't realize how bad a nebigorhood how become when drug dealers, hookers, thugs, and crackheads move in and destroy what the older generations built.
She didn't "snitch". She did what was nessacary to protect her family. Jesus Christ! You guys probably don't even know the situation. She was probably a hard working woman that wanted her communtiy to change. Think about it. Where would her kids play and run around? They can't do it in their negiborhood because it's infested with hookers, crackheads, rats, and all kinds of shit. As a result, they killed a person that was just trying to help.
Those mofo's took an innocent life because they want to sell their fucking drugs. The hookers want to sell their bodies. The crackheads want to become better pests than what they already are.
If any of you believe she did something here, you can go to hell and burn, you mofo.
Thanks.
LOL Protect her children. From what? LOL She probably got jealous of their money, and decided to rat on em. She put her whole family in danger, and they all got killed. Now I would never justify killing innocent family members of a snitch, but that said they were killed. Was it worth it? No postives come from snitchin only heartache and tragedy! Don't snitch! Do you think those drug dealers sat around and plotted how they were gonna hurt that womans children b4 she ratted? No! Protecting her children LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by shinobi4227
You are probably right. She probably did think she was helpin tha community. Instead she got her whole family murdered. On top of that, locking 1 drug dealer or a group of drug dealers will do NOTHING 2 make her community more safe! U see every town and city has drug dealers. When a dealer gets busted, someone takes their place immediately. So why would you snitch? Their is no possible positive outome 2 it. How could you argue that? That said, I hope they kill these child murderin cocksuckers 4 this! No excuse for killin tha rest of tha family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironman
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Originally Posted by ERICHWV
Imperial1
Imperial, my point is that the she created the threat from tha drug dealers. I sure aint sayin they deserved 2 die. R.I.P. But they posed no threat to them people until they got ratted on. Right? What is so "dumb ass" about that? Again, dont take this as me defending the murders, cuz I dont.
Shut that dumb shit up and put your pledge pin back on.Quote:
Originally Posted by ERICHWV
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Imperial1
Obviously u cant come up with any valid arguement against what I am sayin, or you would present it. Instaed, you just post pics that say dumbass. Very insightful!
If a dumbass tries to make a valid point, what makes your dumbass think you will get a valid argument to a dumbass point?Quote:
Originally Posted by ERICHWV
Imperial1
So if it isnt worth makin a point, why is it worth takin tha time 2 post stupid pictures?
The same reason why you waste bandwidth trying to make dumb ass points.Quote:
Originally Posted by ERICHWV
Imperial1