BREAKING: South Africa gun amnesty coming to end in May. "Drastic" measures underway. Citizens vow resistance.

[Blue Sky Country]

Gun Free South Africa happy with firearm amnesty response

Gun Free South Africa said they were happy with the number of guns handed in, adding that the festive season had prevented people from surrendering their guns.

www.iol.co.za

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Durban - POLICE Minister Bheki Cele has vowed to “squeeze” the breathing space for people with illegal firearms.

Cele was addressing the media during the release of the police’s Safer Festive Season report in Durban yesterday.

Police operations for the festive season began on October 15, 2019.

“Between October 15 to January 11 police confiscated 4 831 unlicensed firearms nationally. These firearms are the preferred instruments used to commit heinous crimes. These are separate from the guns that were surrendered by owners who no longer needed them. Three provinces surrendered 2 244 licensed firearms from December to January 14.

“We believe that the process is going well, but we are getting ready for the end of May when the amnesty period comes to an end and a special team will be dealing with those who are found with unlicensed firearms. By that time, we won’t be nice to those who fail to hand in their illegal firearms,” Cele said.

He said 36 000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered with the legal firearms.

The surrendered firearms will be tested by ballistics teams to determine if any crimes were committed with them.

“I am convinced that alcohol remains the enemy of our society and is a main driver of many contact crimes. During the festive season, police shut down 6124 liquor stores and taverns. Over 2 000 of these outlets were operating in the Eastern Cape. I am aware that there are still some stubborn crimes that need urgent intervention and resources. This (festive) period has seen a massive drop in most major crimes, with a lesser number of people killed compared to the same period the previous year. The national murder rate during this period declined by 1.4%,” Cele said.


He said all crimes within the Contact Crime category decreased, apart from common assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances. Women and children were also safer this festive season, with sexual offences down by 9.9%.

Gun Free South Africa said they were happy with the number of guns handed in, adding that the festive season had prevented people from surrendering their guns.

Gun Free SA chief executive Clare Taylor said: “A single gun handed in makes a difference. We do know that when there’s amnesty people leave things to the last minute. Towards the end of every amnesty there’s an influx of gun owners surrendering their weapons. This happened during the 2005 and 2010 amnesty periods. I think the December holiday has slowed down the handing-over process, but we are still hopeful,” Taylor said.

Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khombinkosi Jula said more guns were still in the hands of people. “We need more than they are giving us. We appeal to those who have more than one licensed firearm to hand them over. During house break-ins the thieves break into safes, and that’s where most of these firearms are kept. Once stolen, these guns go back to communities where they are used in the commission of more crime,” Jula said.
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Citizens are vowing to refuse handing over their guns.



Oh, and check out this little blurb made by the police minister:

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end of May when the amnesty period comes to an end and a special team will be dealing with those who are found with unlicensed firearms. By that time, we won’t be nice
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That can work both ways, you know?... Ever see a bowhunter track an elk silently and patiently through miles of frozen forests and gulches? You do not want to be that elk...

This latest development from South Africa is going to be a must watch for the upcoming months... How our brothers react to what is certainly coming their way will affect the mindset and morale of gun owners who cherish their freedom and families all over the world.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Are they rounding up tires as well?

 

[chevy_man]

Are they rounding up tires as well?

Well now that's just racist! Blaming those black tires that somehow set themselves on fire...


I predict dead/missing LEO when they stop being nice about it. But it's Africa, we'll never see it on the news.

 

[MadDuner]

If a story does surface, you can bet it will include the words “anti-government extremists and domestic terrorists”.

Oh wait, what country or media were we talking about again?
They ALL sound the same when they try to disarm their citizens..... so they can start killing them en masses without so much resistance.

 

[Rthur]

Are they rounding up tires as well?

This is the right question ^^^.

R

 

[W54/XM-388]

They need to get all the guns because their White Genocide plan is about to kick off and you can't have people shooting back when you are trying to mass murder them.

 

[TACC]

Hopefully the Boers have enough when the time comes.

 

[MK20]

The Boers have always made sure they had enough.

 

[MK20]

 

[Blue Sky Country]

They need to get all the guns because their White Genocide plan is about to kick off and you can't have people shooting back when you are trying to mass murder them.

THIS.

The real motive for the gun confiscation push in South Africa has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with "public safety" or "reducing crime". The ruling ANC party and their most fanatical followers have been openly calling for the mass murder of white people for decades now. Living conditions have deteriorated at an alarming pace for whites, Asians, and other non-blacks over the most recent years. The article posted above mentioned "heinous crimes" committed using guns. It is a well documented fact now that many murders, abductions and tortures, rapes, brutal home invasions and assaults that have been perpetrated in South Africa were actually ENDORSED and ORDERED by the ANC to eliminate and terrorize their political opponents. Paramilitary groups employed by the ANC literally have a green light to murder and rob whites and other minorities with impunity and no fear of prosecution.

EVERY non-black South African as well as black South Africans who are opposed to the ANC MUST understand that if you give up your guns, you are going to die. Simply put. You will be forced to watch as your entire families are raped, tortured, and then hacked to death by government paramilitary squads and then your own lifeless corpse will be thrown over theirs in a random roadside ditch. That has happened ALL OVER Africa in the past quarter century, with little to no coverage at all from most media sources.

One of the greatest essays explaining the entire racial, social, and political situation in Africa has been circulating all over the world for the past two decades. It is titled Let Africa Sink, by Kim du Toit. It is imperative that EVERY South African who values their lives read this and share it with as many others as they can:

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Let Africa Sink

Kim du Toit May 26, 2002

When it comes to any analysis of the problems facing Africa, Western society, and particularly people from the United States, encounter a logical disconnect that makes clear analysis impossible. That disconnect is the way life is regarded in the West (it's precious, must be protected at all costs etc.), compared to the way life, and death, are regarded in Africa. Let me try to quantify this statement.

In Africa, life is cheap. There are so many ways to die in Africa that death is far more commonplace than in the West. You can die from so many things--snakebite, insect bite, wild animal attack, disease, starvation, food poisoning... the list goes on and on. At one time, crocodiles accounted for more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa than gunfire, for example. Now add the usual human tragedy (murder, assault, warfare and the rest), and you can begin to understand why the life expectancy for an African is low--in fact, horrifyingly low, if you remove White Africans from the statistics (they tend to be more urbanized, and more Western in behavior and outlook). Finally, if you add the horrifying spread of AIDS into the equation, anyone born in sub-Saharan Africa this century will be lucky to reach age forty.

I lived in Africa for over thirty years. Growing up there, I was infused with several African traits--traits which are not common in Western civilization. The almost-casual attitude towards death was one. (Another is a morbid fear of snakes.)

So because of my African background, I am seldom moved at the sight of death, unless it's accidental, or it affects someone close to me. (Death which strikes at strangers, of course, is mostly ignored.) Of my circle of about eighteen or so friends with whom I grew up, and whom I would consider "close", only about ten survive today--and not one of the survivors is over the age of fifty.

Two friends died from stepping on landmines while on Army duty in Namibia. Three died in horrific car accidents (and lest one thinks that this is not confined to Africa, one was caused by a kudu flying through a windshield and impaling the guy through the chest with its hoof--not your everyday traffic accident in, say, Florida). One was bitten by a snake, and died from heart failure. Another also died of heart failure, but he was a hopeless drunkard. Two were shot by muggers. The last went out on his surfboard one day and was never seen again (did I mention that sharks are plentiful off the African coasts and in the major rivers?). My situation is not uncommon in South Africa--and north of the Limpopo River (the border with Zimbabwe), I suspect that others would show worse statistics.

The death toll wasn't just confined to my friends. When I was still living in Johannesburg, the newspaper carried daily stories of people mauled by lions, or attacked by rival tribesmen, or dying from some unspeakable disease (and this was pre-AIDS Africa too) and in general, succumbing to some of Africa's many answers to the population explosion. Add to that the normal death toll from rampant crime, illness, poverty, flood, famine, traffic, and the police, and you'll begin to get the idea.

My favorite African story actually happened after I left the country. An American executive took a job over there, and on his very first day, the newspaper headlines read: "Three Headless Bodies Found".

The next day: "Three Heads Found".

The third day: "Heads Don't Match Bodies".

You can't make this stuff up.

As a result, death is treated more casually by Africans than by Westerners. I, and I suspect most Africans, am completely inured to reports of African suffering, for whatever cause. Drought causes crops to fail, thousands face starvation? Yup, that happened many times while I was growing up. Inter-tribal rivalry and warfare causes wholesale slaughter? Yep, been happening there for millennia, long before Whitey got there. Governments becoming rich and corrupt while their populations starved? Not more than nine or ten of those. In my lifetime, the following tragedies have occurred, causing untold millions of deaths: famine in Biafra, genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, floods in South Africa, famine in Somalia, civil war in Sudan, famine in Ethiopia, floods in Mozambique, wholesale slaughter in Uganda, and tribal warfare in every single country. There are others, but you get the point.

Yes, all this was also true in Europe--maybe a thousand years ago. But not any more. And Europe doesn't teem with crocodiles, ultra-venomous snakes and so on.

The Dutch controlled the floods. All of Europe controls famine--it's non-existent now. Apart from a couple of examples of massive, state-sponsored slaughter (Nazi Germany, Communist Russia), Europe since 1700 doesn't even begin to compare to Africa today. Casual slaughter is another thing altogether--rare in Europe, common in Africa.

More to the point, the West has evolved into a society with a stable system of government, which follows the rule of law, and has respect for the rights and life of the individual--none of which is true in Africa.

Among old Africa hands, we have a saying, usually accompanied by a shrug: "Africa wins again." This is usually said after an incident such as:

a beloved missionary is butchered by his congregation, for no apparent reason

a tribal chief prefers to let his tribe starve to death rather than accepting food from the Red Cross (would mean he wasn't all-powerful, you see)

an entire nation starves to death, while its ruler accumulates wealth in foreign banks

a new government comes into power, promising democracy, free elections etc., provided that the freedom doesn't extend to the other tribe

the other tribe comes to power in a bloody coup, then promptly sets about slaughtering the first tribe

etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

The prognosis is bleak, because none of this mayhem shows any sign of ending. The conclusions are equally bleak, because, quite frankly, there is no answer to Africa's problems, no solution that hasn't been tried before, and failed.

Just go to the CIA World Fact Book, pick any of the African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi etc.), and compare the statistics to any Western country (eg. Portugal, Italy, Spain, Ireland). The disparities are appalling--and it's going to get worse, not better. It has certainly got worse since 1960, when most African countries achieved independence. We, and by this I mean the West, have tried many ways to help Africa. All such attempts have failed.

1. Charity is no answer. Money simply gets appropriated by the first, or second, or third person to touch it (17 countries saw a decline in real per capita GNP between 1970 and 1999, despite receiving well over $100 billion in World Bank assistance).

2. Food isn't distributed. This happens either because there is no transportation infrastructure (bad), or the local leader deliberately withholds the supplies to starve people into submission (worse).

3. Materiel is broken, stolen or sold off for a fraction of its worth. The result of decades of "foreign aid" has resulted in a continental infrastructure which, if one excludes South Africa, couldn't support Pittsburgh.

Add to this, as I mentioned above, the endless cycle of Nature's little bag of tricks--persistent drought followed by violent flooding, a plethora of animals, reptiles and insects so dangerous that life is already cheap before Man starts playing his little reindeer games with his fellow Man--and what you are left with is: catastrophe.

The inescapable conclusion is simply one of resignation. This goes against the grain of our humanity--we are accustomed to ridding the world of this or that problem (smallpox, polio, whatever), and accepting failure is anathema to us. But, to give a classic African scenario, a polio vaccine won't work if the kids are prevented from getting the vaccine by a venal overlord, or a frightened chieftain, or a lack of roads, or by criminals who steal the vaccine and sell it to someone else. If a cure for AIDS was found tomorrow, and offered to every African nation free of charge, the growth of the disease would scarcely be checked, let alone reversed. Basically, you'd have to try to inoculate as many two-year old children as possible, and write off the two older generations.

So that is the only one response, and it's a brutal one: accept that we are powerless to change Africa, and leave them to sink or swim, by themselves.

It sounds dreadful to say it, but if the entire African continent dissolves into a seething maelstrom of disease, famine and brutality, that's just too damn bad. We have better things to do--sometimes, you just have to say, "Can't do anything about it."

The viciousness, the cruelty, the corruption, the duplicity, the savagery, and the incompetence is endemic to the entire continent, and is so much of an anathema to any right-thinking person that the civilized imagination simply stalls when faced with its ubiquity, and with the enormity of trying to fix it. The Western media shouldn't even bother reporting on it. All that does is arouse our feelings of horror, and the instinctive need to do something, anything--but everything has been tried before, and failed. Everything, of course, except self-reliance.

All we should do is make sure that none of Africa gets transplanted over to the U.S., because the danger to our society is dire if it does. I note that several U.S. churches are attempting to bring groups of African refugees over to the United States, European churches the same for Europe. Mistake. Mark my words, this misplaced charity will turn around and bite us, big time.

Even worse would be to think that the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember "It Takes A Village"? Trust me on this: there is not one thing that Africa can give the West which hasn't been tried before and failed, not one thing that isn't a step backwards, and not one thing which is worse than, or that contradicts, what we have already.

So here's my solution for the African fiasco: a high wall around the whole continent, all the guns and bombs in the world for everyone inside, and at the end, the last one alive should do us all a favor and kill himself.

Inevitably, some Kissingerian realpolitiker is going to argue in favor of intervention, because in the vacuum of Western aid, perhaps the Communist Chinese would step in and increase their influence in the area. There are two reasons why this isn't going to happen.

Firstly, the PRC doesn't have that kind of money to throw around; and secondly, the result of any communist assistance will be precisely the same as if it were Western assistance. For the record, Mozambique and Angola are both communist countries--and both are economic disaster areas. The prognosis for both countries is disastrous--and would be the same for any other African country.

Africa has to heal itself. The West can't help it. Nor should we. The record speaks for itself.
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[Gunfighter14e2]

Was J. M. Browning not ask to invent/design something, to deal with issues like this long ago?

 

[MtnCreek]

I wonder why the world demanded they give up nuclear weapons before handing over the country to the anc?

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

I wonder why the world demanded they give up nuclear weapons before handing over the country to the anc?

Because they could not be trusted with electrons flowing to things that go bang?

 

[MtnCreek]

Because they could not be trusted with electrons flowing to things that go bang?

You know somebody would have tried to rob a gas station with one.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

If we wait long enough they will starve to death, wondering if they could/should assist in that? Course most one trick pony Americans, could be in the same boat one day,...

 

[tomcatmv]

Have ya'll seen the stories of the epic locust storms that are currently going on all over Africa? It is bad.

 

[niteshooter]

Have ya'll seen the stories of the epic locust storms that are currently going on all over Africa? It is bad.

That what crop dusters are for. Also why you don’t see that shit here in the US.

As far as guns getting confiscated in Africa, I feel sorry for the poor sob that gets sent out to round them up and winds up staring at the wrong end of double barreled 470 nitro express.
At least that’s the image that was conjured up.

 

[Rthur]

While not nearly as polished this line of bullshit should sound familiar.


R

 

[W54/XM-388]

I wonder why the world demanded they give up nuclear weapons before handing over the country to the anc?

The rumors for decades have gone that the "official" inventory may not have actually been the "complete" inventory......

 

[W54/XM-388]

As far as guns getting confiscated in Africa, I feel sorry for the poor sob that gets sent out to round them up and winds up staring at the wrong end of double barreled 470 nitro express.
At least that’s the image that was conjured up.

That won't matter in Africa where the ruling party of thugs doesn't even care about their own people. Sure you may take out a couple, they don't care, but they will make sure to send enough sub 50 IQ types with AKs to eventually overwhelm you if you are making a one man / one family type stand. They'd actually prefer it to go that way so they have an excuse to go for even more violence on the next farm.

This is NOT going to be like here in the USA, this will literally be Zimbabwe style government run death squads of barely human types that just want to see all of you dead and won't stop till you are gone.

Fighting in Africa is a very different thing than in the west & the idea of rules is not usually even a consideration.

 

[deersniper]

Women voters caused this

 

[W54/XM-388]

Women voters caused this

Possibly, but if Men had stuck with being MEN and not getting all weak kneed easily led sissies hoping that by kowtowing to Feminist shills they would somehow make up for the beta male status and get sympathy sex or good guy points, none of this would have even gotten started.

Hard men stopped being hard men and became weak men and the rest is the cycle of history.

 

[RyanScott]

South Africa shouldn’t have had apartheid. That was poison to minority rule.

 

[buffalowinter]

 

[BytorJr]

Don't forget that China would love to see a disarmed populace as they are stealing other countries in Africa blind and taking over. Another failure of the previous administration IMO.

 

[MtnCreek]

South Africa shouldn’t have had apartheid. That was poison to minority rule.

If South Africa did the same with their indians as we did, this wouldn’t be a problem.

 

[RyanScott]

If South Africa did the same with their indians as we did, this wouldn’t be a problem.

They did. Have you ever seen a Khoi Khoi? The people there now are Bantu imports.

 

[Alphatreedog]

If South Africa did the same with their indians as we did, this wouldn’t be a problem.

Wow . That was effed up even for you . So genocide is ok when whites do it . But n9w that there is pontential for whites to be exterminated its time to circle the mobile homes . Do you even here or understand what you're saying ?

 

[MtnCreek]

Wow . That was effed up even for you . So genocide is ok when whites do it . But n9w that there is pontential for whites to be exterminated its time to circle the mobile homes . Do you even here or understand what you're saying ?

So you never played cowboys and indians growing up?

 

[Alphatreedog]

So you never played cowboys and indians growing up?

Seriously ? Comparing unaware kids playing a child's game glamorized by hollyweird and suggesting genocide are two completely different things. At some point one matures , is educated , understands right from wrong and develops sound moral and reasoning skills . Or " It's ok cuz we played genocide as kids " .

 

[deersniper]

Those people need supervision / management. When they don’t have it you have Africa. They are always better off under colonists rule

 

[MadDuner]

Once they get rid of all the people who feed them, we will have every left-leaning actor on the planet pleading for Americans to help feed the starving masses. The leaders of SA will have let what they want - overrun what they need.

 

[deersniper]

Once they get rid of all the people who feed them, we will have every left-leaning actor on the planet pleading for Americans to help feed the starving masses. The leaders of SA will have let what they want - overrun what they need.

Yup. Just like Rhodesia.

Just like all the commie cities whose policy’s push all the business and taxpayers out. Then the state steals money from all the county’s and sends it to the city.