Courtroom showdown in South Africa as the local Chinese community stand up against racism and hate speech.
South Africa is facing numerous challenges including unemployment, xenophobia and high levels of violent crime. Despite these problems, Chinese in South Africa remain largely optimistic about the country’s future.
The next time a criminal suspect is apprehended by a Johannesburg police officer, it may well be because of a martial arts-style kick to the knees, one of numerous non-lethal techniques taught by Chinese policing and unarmed combat experts.
Five homeless men dead in a month, suggesting society’s most vulnerable are being hunted and killed in a spree experts link to colonialism and apartheid.
A blockbuster inquiry into corruption in South Africa is examining a deal with a Chinese train company that blew out to US$3.75 billion, and ‘success fees’ allegedly paid to firms linked to a billionaire family associated with the country’s scandal-plagued ex-president.
Breakthrough comes just a day after the mine-owners had dismissed all the workers’ demands out of hand.
At Orkney, in South Africa’s North West province, gold miners are staging a sit-in strike nearly 3km underground against a wage decision made by the troubled mine’s Chinese owners. They have been there since Saturday.
‘Militant’ party expected to make gains as impoverished voters shun the ANC over a lack of improvement in employment and living standards.
In a bid to continue to strengthen ties with China, the country’s largest trading partner, many South Africans are being taught the subtleties of Chinese language and etiquette.
A courtroom showdown over “genocidal hate speech”, labelling Chinese people living in South Africa as the “scum of the Earth”, is underway in Johannesburg.