The issuance of export permits for rifles manufactured in the RSA has also been adversely affected. I have a client awaiting the shipment of his custom .404 for nearly six months and he is rightfully furious.
African style bureaucracy hand in hand with the (worldwide) fallacy of restrictive gunlaws. Sounds like a sure recipe for disaster. The guys who bother to stay legal either can't obtain the weapons to protect their livelihoods or go bust trying to sell them. The criminals who could not care less about gunlaws have a field day. All brought to you by the politicians whose salaries you pay. Sad times, indeed. - mike
Posts: 6653 | Location: Switzerland | Registered: 11 March 2002
The black government in SA is treating the black citizens of SA far worse than the white minority government ever dreamed of. Unemployment is higher by an order of magnitude, as is the violent crime rate. In your zeal to condemn white on brown or white on black racism, don't show a double standard by not acknowledging black on white, black on brown or black on black racism (eg hutu/tutsi).
Disarming a populace is always a prelude to imprisonment and killing part or all of the populace.
JCN
Posts: 7158 | Location: Snake River | Registered: 02 February 2004
Alf/Sunshine: Some more facts on Bushmen policy: When South Africa took over the administration of what today is Namibia they did much more for the Bushman than the British (let�s not even discuss German colonial policies...)ever had. We have the apartheid regime to thank for preserving much of their culture.
Just goes to show that no one thing is singularly bad.
Posts: 2213 | Location: Finland | Registered: 02 May 2003
Quote: Poster: cewe Alf: As mentioned in my latest post I base my "knowledge" (I wouldn�t qualify myself as deeply learned) on the writings of a South African who�s ancestors were one of the first to trek North and participated in the abovementioned Bushman< !--color--> "wars". Or are there different truths? Some more comfortable than others?
I believe it was the Xhosa and the Zulus and not the Bushman.
What is morally wrong--as in the systematic oppression and dehumanization of a class or race of people--is wrong anywhere at any time and regardless of the race or nationality of the oppressed.
I have no patience or respect for those who uphold double standards of human treatment based on a so-called "historical" perspective.
Discrimination, racism and injustice can be practiced by any group against any other and must be condemned by right-thinking people wherever they occur, be it the USA or the RSA--to name just a couple of noteworthy places.
As Dr. King said in his letter from the Birmingham Jail in 1963, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
These RSA gun laws are nothing more than a naked attempt to disarm, divest, disenfranchise and destroy a minority--incrementally, and perhaps a bit more humanely, but no less finally, than by "Mugabecide."
What began in South Africa and was hailed as a miracle of racial reconciliation is fast becoming a nightmare that I fear will be far worse for the whites under black rule that it ever was for the blacks under apartheid.
Posts: 13698 | Location: New England | Registered: 06 June 2003
BFaucet: Like I said it�s in van de Post�s book. He has written several books on the Bushman, made a documentary film for the BBC etc. I rest my case on the Bushman.
mrlexma: You are absolutely right, as was Dr King. I never said they were doing the right thing, historically speaking it is what happens though -the oppressed oppress. Look at Israel...
Posts: 2213 | Location: Finland | Registered: 02 May 2003
Sorry to here about Dr Potgieter, he has a very good reputation. What will happen to the SA gun industry? Maybe they should try to break into the European market? I understand that fine semi-custom rifles are made on the M98 action by Truvelo and others.
Seasons greetings,
cewe
Posts: 2213 | Location: Finland | Registered: 02 May 2003
