Were Huntley's statements about crime in SA a thumbsuck?
Toronto couple stabbed while hiking in S. Africa
pic below - the warning sign supposed to save your lily white ass
Whoppee! this should do the trick - pepper spray and whistles given to small hiking groups
A warning sign at the entrance to Fernkloof Nature Reserve, in Hermanus, South Africa, erected a week ago.
South Africa is a hellhole of crime, do not visit while it remains the criminal infested hellhole it currently is. Follow 'white one, from suburban Hell that is Mowbray', Huntley's example stay the hell away.
What you should know
- The SA police are not capable of protecting you.
- SA state protection is inadequate and non-existent.
The facts about South Africa - "stealing from whites is not a crime".
Tourists, farmers, soccer fans, whoever, if you are white, beware, your life is in danger - there is no safe place in SA, not even in the mountains.
Let's talk about the rift between Pretoria and Ottawa
Q; Who said: "If the country is so bad, why would you return after fleeing SA? ...even for a brief period. Once a person has fled South Africa due to high levels of crime he should NEVER return to visit his family or graves of his ancestors".
A; The ignorant Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, in his attempt to reverse the IRB’ decision to grant Brandon Huntley refugee status.
Robbed? stabbbed? We believe you, thousands wouldn't..
Oh and be sure to report these 'irrelevant' criminal acts to the inefficient cops...
no thumbsucking please and no playing Die Hard 3 in Gugulethu!
This leaves me with one quesion "Will the SA police find the savage, scumbag perpetrators?"
Answer: "Let's not, and say we did" SAPS motto!
OK two questions "How long before this docket goes missing?"
by:- Wily whiner crime whinger in SA Gangster Paradise
Toronto banker and wife stabbed in South African nature reserve
ANC earns more damage and negative publicity for SA.
A brutal assault on a Canadian financial executive, the second violent attack on a Canadian this month, has triggered headlines and recriminations in South Africa as the country prepares for an influx of foreign visitors during the World Cup.
Repeatedly stabbed and beaten with rocks on a hiking trail, robbed of their jewellery, digital cameras and cellphones, tied up with shoelaces and left bleeding on the remote mountain.
The attack, two weeks after an armed assault on a 70-year-old Canadian priest that left a second priest dead, is provoking another round of soul searching over South Africa’s high rate of violent crime, along with fears that the country’s tourism business could be damaged as the soccer tournament approaches.
The attacks have led to front-page headlines in South African newspapers, sparking new questions about safety for the half-million foreigners who will visit the country next June and July. President Jacob Zuma has promised to reduce crime, but a spate of armed robberies at shopping malls has prompted South African police to threaten “lethal force” against criminals.
Mr. Stern, 59, and Mrs. Stern, 57, South African expats living in Canada were found by hikers about two hours after they were attacked on Tuesday morning, the fourth in two months at the busting holiday town's Fernkloof Reserve. They were flown out by helicopter, but reportedly lost a lot of blood and were hospitalized in serious condition.
Martin said having hiked for more than half an hour from the entrance to the reserve at the bottom of the kloof, they were walking along a jeep track on top of the mountain when they passed two men walking in the opposite direction.
"I said good morning, and they nodded," he said, speaking from his hospital bed at Hermanus Medi-Clinic. A few seconds later they heard running footsteps behind them and presumed joggers were approaching.
"The next thing we knew we were being stabbed in the back. I was stabbed next to my kidney, and they stabbed Janet in the arm," said Martin. "They pushed us to the ground and picked up rocks."
One attacker smashed Martin across the face with a rock and ripped his bag from his back using his knife.
They had large hunting knives that looked about 12 inches (30cm) long, then they really started roughing us up.
The attackers took a camera, Janet's watch and wedding ring and cellphone before forcing them down the slope away from the road, throwing rocks at them as they walked.
About 30m down the slope the attackers used the couples' shoelaces to bind their feet and hands.
"We were feeling very faint and we were beginning to pass out and they told us to lie down."
When Janet tried to raise her head, they threw rocks at her, and then the couple were left alone, dehydrated, drenched in blood and weak.
Staggering back to the road, they collapsed repeatedly.
The Sterns have visited Hermanus annually for the past 10 years.
Now settled in Toronto where Martin works in finance, they said they left South Africa in 1986 for business reasons. Fernkloof was a hiking route Martin said they hiked once or twice a year.
Grant Forbes, reserve manager at Fernkloof, said that in the first attack two months ago, an Italian couple were approached from behind and held up at knifepoint: "They didn't see the guys' faces."
The other two attacks were similar. In the second, a woman was slapped in the face, and in the most recent attack, three weeks ago, eight hikers were mugged by two men who beat them with their own walking sticks.
In each incident the attackers were two men, although police Inspector David Payne said there was no evidence linking the attacks, which all occurred on the same trail, in the same area.
Zybrandts said two men were apprehended by baboon monitors after the third attack, but they were released due to a lack of evidence.
A sign was erected at the entrance to Fernkloof a week ago, warning hikers to be vigilant, and offering emergency phone numbers.
Zybrandts said signs were now being erected at all informal entry points to the trail, encouraging hikers to walk in large groups and to start at the main entrance. Security guards would be provided for large groups and small groups would be given pepper spray canisters and whistles. While law enforcement teams did patrol the trails during the holiday season, their number was being increased.
The attack took place on a mountain hiking trail in a nature reserve near Hermanus, a famed whale-watching town on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Cape Town. Because of other mugging attacks recently, the nature reserve was posted with a large sign, warning hikers to be “vigilant at all times” and not to carry any valuables, passports or credit cards.
A day before the attack, a group of hikers found a decomposed body on a hiking trail in the same nature reserve. At least four hikers have been attacked in the reserve, but the attack on the Canadians was the first since security was boosted recently, local media reported.
A senior official of the Western Cape government, Alan Winde, expressed worry about what the attack on the Canadians would do for South Africa’s image in the lead-up to the World Cup. “We must not allow these kinds of attacks on anybody in our country, specifically because the eyes of the world are on us at the moment, as we are gearing up to host one of the biggest events in the world,” he told a South African media agency.
Earlier this month, a Canadian priest narrowly survived an armed assault that killed another priest. Father Guido Bourgeois, a 70-year-old Catholic missionary from Canada, was able to barricade himself in a room when his house was attacked by armed robbers near Johannesburg, but another priest in the same house, 70-year-old Father Louis Blondel of France, was shot dead. He was the fourth Catholic priest to be killed in South Africa this year.
A spokeswoman for Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department would not give any details of the latest incident.
Canadian consular officials at the High Commission in Pretoria said they were aware of the stabbing of two Canadian citizens in South Africa, but would not be able to provide additional information because of the Privacy Act.
"Consular officials are actively providing consular assistance and support to them," said Lisa Monette, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
source - http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2376594
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