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‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’

Posted on | December 6, 2013 | 197 Comments

 

Maybe if it had been committed by the Duke lacrosse team, you would have heard of this atrocity by now, but it happened five years ago in another country. Amanda Marcotte probably didn’t notice:

Jamie Paterson, 17: “I was lying down and I could hear them undoing the TV and then throwing it across and then something fell on me. I thought it was the TV, but it was my mother. And then I looked up. And then they dragged her away again and the carpet was covered in blood. They kept saying to my father, ‘We are going to kill you, we are going to kill you now.’ . . .
Alan Paterson (her father): “She was bargaining her flute, she was bargaining her [school] badge. She was doing it, almost knowing what was going to happen to her was almost inevitable.”
Jamie: “He said to me ‘I’m HIV positive. But you’re young, I don’t want to ruin your life. So if you could just give me gold. I want gold, money and I want your gun.’I said to him, ‘We don’t have it.’ He hit me around the head and said, ‘No, you have a gun, don’t lie to me.'”
Bronwyn Paterson (her mother): “They started to fight over her and I knew she was going to be raped.”
Jamie: “And then he took me into the bathroom and locked me in and raped me there.”

You never heard of Jamie Paterson or the criminal gang that attacked her, and I never heard about it either until I saw a video interview with Jamie, which was included at the end of a long post Kathy Shaidle wrote in July about another violent criminal gang:

During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned for challenging apartheid . . . and, following the 1960 banning of the ANC, he went underground . . .
During this time, he and other ANC leaders formed its armed wing — Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). . . .
That “armed wing” carried out terror attacks at shopping centers, movie theaters and other civilian targets . . .
And when Mandela was arrested, the authorities claimed to have uncovered “210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate, 21.6 tons of aluminium powder and 1 ton of black powder.”
Governments around the world, such as the ones in the U.S. and Great Britain, placed the ANC on their terror lists, along with the PLO, the IRA and the FLQ.

You really should read the whole thing at PJ Media, because it explains how the violent terrorist Nelson Mandela got an image makeover with the help of liberal celebrities in America and England who jumped aboard the anti-apartheid crusade when it became a fashionable cause in the late 1980s. None of those celebrities live in South Africa, of course, and none of them gave a damn about the epidemic of violent crime that has afflicted South Africa in recent years, an epidemic of which Jamie Paterson and her family were victims.

Well . . . context, says our friend Drew when he derides David Swindle as a “conservative juiceboxer” for Swindle’s remembrance of Nelson Mandela’s communist past. Certainly I have labored to supply the necessary Cold War context of what the ANC actually meant during the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher refused to be intimidated by “further intensification of the armed struggle.”

Professor Donald Douglas also provides context:

We know that Mandela, in his membership with the African National Congress, was a terrorist and Communist, even though his ties to the Moscow-led revolutionary world program were disguised at the time. Here’s Telegraph UK from last year, “Nelson Mandela ‘proven’ to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial.” (And see the fascinating contemporary piece from Thomas Karis, at Foreign Affairs, “South African Liberation: The Communist Factor.” Also, here’s a communique from South African Communist Party Leader Joe Slovo from 1989, “Message by Joe Slovo, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, to the Soweto rally for the released ANC leaders.”)
In any case, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing overwhelming acclaim for Mandela’s legacy from the left and the right, although it’s pretty pathetic that even so-called conservatives are attempting to tamp down the meme that Mandela was a Communist.

Some conservatives are like a dog that’s been kicked a few times and flinches at a gesture — this is especially true on the subject of RAAAAACISM! — and, as I said late night, “many conservatives are so intimidated by the enormous prestige of liberalism that it takes a stern contempt for mere popularity to speak unpleasant truths.” Nobody wants to be excluded from polite society, or to show up on a left-wing “kill map” for gay psychos with a Chik-fil-A rage.

Is that our job? To be interrogated as if we were suspects? To assume, and to confirm, the media’s self-vaunted status as the Judges of Truth and the Priests of Righteousness?
Why would we ever concede that to them? . . .
Do we ever swing the hot light around and begin Watching the Watchmen?

See, the media’s omissions from Mandela’s biography are not random.

It is impossible to believe that any figure on the Right, with a comparable history of association with terrorist violence, would be celebrated by the media as a secular saint when he died.

“Well, yes, but . . .” and then our conservative friends give us a lecture (which sounds a lot like what MSNBC has been saying in its wall-to-wall Mandela telethon today) about how Mandela embraced peace and democracy and everybody lived happily ever after.

Except maybe for the people who got killed or raped.

The Gospel of Saint Nelson does not merely omit the long-ago victims of ANC terrorism, but also manages to ignore the ultra-violent reality of contemporary South Africa, “The Rape Capital of the World.”

It’s not me, the Evil Right-Wing Racist, who’s saying this, it’s South Africans themselves, and most of the victims of South Africa’s world-historic rape rampage are black, as are their rapists.

And hey, let’s talk about murder: In 2011, the murder rate in South Africa was 31.9 per 100,000. The U.S. rate is 4.7 per 100,000.

How is it that all these liberals on MSNBC who wring their hands and blame the NRA for the horrible murder rate in America don’t blink an eye in praising the wonderful post-apartheid government of South Africa, where the murder rate is six times as high?

In 1991, at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the U.S. murder rate was only 9.8 per 100,000 — less than a third of the murder rate in South Africa today. Mexico, wracked by drug cartel violence, managed to get its murder rate down to 22 per 100,000 last year.

Three years ago, a government study of South Africa’s crime problem described several factors, including  “a subculture of violence and criminality” and “problems of inefficiency and corruption” in the criminal justice system. Gosh, that sounds kind of like . . .

Detroit, where the murder rate is 54.6 per 100,000.

OK, so South Africa is 40 percent less dangerous than Detroit, but that’s small comfort to the 15,000 or so South Africans who are murdered every year. This crime epidemic is why many South Africans live in gated communities protected by private security forces, but this was not enough to protect university professor Alan Paterson and his family when they were attacked at their home in Sandton, an affluent suburb of Johannesburg.

The family’s attackers became notorious as the Razor Gang, named after their leader Raymond “Razor” Bheki Zulu, and they “carved a devastating crime swathe through nearby suburbs,” according to a recent article about another of the gang’s victims:

Diana Thomson’s life was changed forever on the stormy night eight years ago when her son Mike was stabbed and shot repeatedly as he fought for his life, while trying to protect his wife and little children in their Johannesburg home. . . .
He, his wife Lorna and their three children aged between seven and 11, were at home on Thursday, September 27 2007 as a wild storm dumped so much water into the swimming pool that it began to overflow.
Mike went out to backwash the pool when he saw four men hiding in the corner of his courtyard.
He shouted and Lorna heard the crack of a handgun amidst the thunder. It was a shot going into Mike’s torso. He was a big, strong man who was running a karate school with his brother Allan, and he continued to fight the gang, sustaining 14 stab wounds before another shot killed him.
The gang moved into the house where Lorna and her children were tied up and threatened with death before the robbers fled in a waiting car.

The same gang attacked a pastor’s family:

In the robbery of Pastor Neil Rischbieter, his wife Carol and two other women were raped and his elderly parents terrorised for three hours. . . .
On December 17, five men broke into Rischbieter’s Buccleuch home — where he and his wife Carol throw swimming parties for children from a nearby shelter.
Neil’s parents, Joey and Noel, and a woman renting a cottage also live on the property. On the night, the tenant had three friends over, including another woman in her 20s.
The gang tied up their victims and rounded them up in Joey and Noel’s cottage.
Carol was brought to the cottage but then marched back to the house. Her assailant tried to force her into the bathroom, but she refused, and he raped her in the bedroom.
“I was praying for him and his forgiveness,” she said.
“I told him: ‘You don’t need to do this. You don’t know how much Jesus loves you. Jesus will forgive you’.”
The young tenant and her friend were also raped and one of their male friends was beaten by the robbers after he slipped out of the phone cords used to tie him up.

Alan Paterson described the sadistic glee of the criminals who attacked his family:

“They enjoyed every bit of the attack. It was brutal.” . . .
[T]he robbers pistol-whipped [Paterson’s wife] and then stabbed her in the back of the head and neck with a pair of scissors.
“All the time they kept shouting at her: ‘You f***ing white bitch.’ “

And, in case you forgot, 17-year-old Jamie Paterson got raped:

 

Raped by an HIV-infected criminal? All too common in South Africa, which is not only “The Rape Capital of the World,” but also a country in which more than 5 million people are infected with the AIDS virus, according to official statistics:

At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because “sugar daddies” are exploiting them, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said.
He said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at state facilities, The Sowetan newspaper reports.
About 10% of South Africans are living with HIV, official statistics show. . . .
Last year more than 260,000 people with AIDS died — almost half the figure of all those who died in the country.

Nobody else is going to remind you of that today. There are a lot of things the media doesn’t want you to know about, aren’t there?

 

Category: Crime, Terrorism

Comments

197 Responses to “‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’”

  1. patdissent
    December 6th, 2013 @ 11:38 pm

    http://t.co/kX60D6M5aA All the more reason to piss on #Mandela’s grave instead of worship the goddamned #Commie bastard.

  2. CharieB2me
    December 6th, 2013 @ 11:43 pm

    RT @LeatherPenguin: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/g8LZ0O1uLp

  3. BobBelvedere
    December 6th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm

    RT @LeatherPenguin: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/g8LZ0O1uLp

  4. darlingdelilah
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:01 am

    ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/UYcDFwTIdM #Mandela

  5. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:02 am

    Mugabe had his democratic coalition partner Nkomo intimidated into signing over full power – by killing many of his supporters. His entire rule is a story of corruption and violence by his Shona tribesmen against all opponents or perceived opponents. The country was the breadbasket of Africa before he took over, now it cannot feed itself.

    There was never a decent second in Mugabe’s miserable, violent, criminal life.

  6. ‘Saint Nelson Of The Blessed Necklace’ [UPDATED Below] | The Camp Of The Saints
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:02 am

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  7. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:07 am

    I’m thinking maybe his hypocrisy isn’t quite so bad as the people he helped murder. The innocents in theatres and restaurants and office buildings which the militia under his command bombed, set afire, or attacked with gunfire.

    But yeah, hypocrisy is also very bad.

  8. RH
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:08 am

    yeah as in multi-national corporations, the resources they covet, and markets they want to control.

  9. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:10 am

    DrewM is a freakin’ idiot. If I can’t call a murderer a murderer because it might offend some of the murderer’s leftist fans . . . Drew probably has a dim view of Manson critics, too, then, eh?

  10. LOWM
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:10 am

    yeah, a man who spent 27 years in prison fighting a government who imposed institutional racism on his people is a “plastique saint”. Problem is the modern conservative movement has no hero’s and is composed of cynical, self serving, morons like Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, and Rush Limbaugh.

  11. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:13 am

    No, he didn’t force socialism, he saw there was more to steal by allowing the existing system to persist as long as it could survive. His government was not some peaceful, justice-seeking sing-along around the bonfire on the beach.

    Yeah, he could have precipitated a bloodbath and didn’t. I find it repulsive to excuse a murderer on the grounds he could have murdered more, but stopped to line his pockets instead.

  12. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:16 am

    Yes, Reagan’s error was in not just telling Boland and the Congress to go pound sand and helping the Contras anyway. But my, you must be so proud of Daniel Ortega for “earning” a quarter billion dollars, right? You hate capitalism but worship theft and murder.

  13. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:18 am

    He was in prison for an armed insurrection that murdered innocent civilians. But you only wish Obama had the nads to kill his enemies, too, don’t you?

  14. Adjoran
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:19 am

    Have a tissue.

    There are plenty of places to go join in the self-flagellation and wringing of hands over the death of this communist terrorist murderer, aren’t there?

  15. Bob Belvedere
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:24 am

    Man…you’re on a roll, Adj – keep up the good work.

  16. museoaft
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:28 am

    RT @LeatherPenguin: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/g8LZ0O1uLp

  17. A bit more on “Mandela the Saint” | The Daley Gator
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:58 am

    […] Or, as Bob Belvedere calls him, Saint Nelson of the Blessed Necklace Stacy McCain has posted some more useful context as to what South Africa has become after Saint Nelson rose to power. South Africa has some, shall we say problems, like being the rape capital of the world […]

  18. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 7th, 2013 @ 1:19 am

    Hey Rob save that leftist tactic of putting words in my mouth I did not say for the someone else. I do not worship Mandela. But you are right in stating I do not think he is was “complete monster.” Mandela was not. This completely over the top criticism of him is just as bad as the leftist canonization of him. Do you persuade those who could be persuaded by the truth? No, because by going OTT you get dismissed as biased or slandered worse.

    The decades of confinement gave Mandela creditability with most of his country. And to his credit, he did not get bitter and seek revenge when he got out. So I would say yes his confinement worked out for the benefit of South Africa. Far better than if they executed him.

    There is a middle with Mandela on certain things he did. Without agreeing with his political positions (which for the most part I do not), I can appreciate he did not throw SA into a civil war when he took power (and it would have been very easy for him to do so). That transition was a critical period and I think he did about as good as any leader could have at that limited point. If you cannot recognize that, perhaps you are not objective.

  19. Bob Belvedere
    December 7th, 2013 @ 1:27 am

    He appears to be a regular commentator over at Alex Jones’s conspiracy sewer, er, site.

  20. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 7th, 2013 @ 1:32 am

    I am calling BS on that.

    Mandela was a very flawed person who was in violent opposition to the government of South Africa. Murder he admitted to on the basis of heading the revolution and served 26 years of a life sentence on that. But I think you are fair enough to recognize the South African government at the time killed many in the opposition too (outside the rule of law). There was a lot of bad blood on both sides.

    I am not excusing that at all. But I am objective enough to appreciate Mandela moved for a peaceful transition. You believe it was all a sham. It may turn out that way over time (as you state the ANC is corrupt), but I do not believe Mandela was just a sham.

  21. Garym
    December 7th, 2013 @ 1:34 am

    There’s something in the water on that site.

  22. Garym
    December 7th, 2013 @ 1:41 am

    You don’t have to go that far, look how the media treated Teddy “the swimmer” Kennedy. “The Lion of the Senate,” holy crap ………..

  23. Professor_Why
    December 7th, 2013 @ 2:16 am

    ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/4e7zrQM4AB

  24. PoliticsPaladin
    December 7th, 2013 @ 2:34 am

    RT @LeatherPenguin: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/g8LZ0O1uLp

  25. wizguy123
    December 7th, 2013 @ 4:04 am

    RT @LeatherPenguin: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/g8LZ0O1uLp

  26. WillProfit1
    December 7th, 2013 @ 7:27 am

    @ElizabethNels0n Mandela the Terrorist ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/7wi17IVg8L

  27. Terrance_Char
    December 7th, 2013 @ 7:31 am

    RT @IloiloKano: Things the media doesn’t tell you about life and death in South Africa… like HALF the death rate being AIDS related. http:/…

  28. jr
    December 7th, 2013 @ 8:10 am

    His used his wife as proxy to continue the fight while he was in prison as well.

  29. tlk244182
    December 7th, 2013 @ 8:10 am

    ‘Harbour’ is right. They never confess, or publicly declare their purpose of amendment. I dont recall any mea culpas from the Muslims or the Marxist Third World, or from Russia. All civilizations of any consequence have fought wars of conquest, held ‘slaves,’ and done all kinds of wicked deeds. But only Christendom ever confesses and tries to make amends. And Her enemies know this, and they exploit it ruthlessly. But the Christian theory of just war is not a suicide pact. At some point, we will fight back.

  30. Church_On_F1
    December 7th, 2013 @ 8:53 am

    ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/zgWnaRGQib

  31. RS
    December 7th, 2013 @ 8:58 am

    My point was, it was hidden for awhile. When the Zimbabwean economy started really going into the toilet, as it was bound to do, is when Mugabe started confiscating farms from white landowners to “distribute” to “freedom fighters,” all of whom were related to him or his minions. I don’t dispute that he is an evil human being. Alas, (and the point of this series of essays by our host) the devil can appear to be an angel of light on occasion.

  32. Shutterbugfun
    December 7th, 2013 @ 9:40 am

    RT @IloiloKano: Things the media doesn’t tell you about life and death in South Africa… like HALF the death rate being AIDS related. http:/…

  33. Shutterbugfun
    December 7th, 2013 @ 9:42 am

    RT @rsmccain: “Maybe if it had been committed by the Duke lacrosse team, you would have heard of this atrocity by now” http://t.co/WYy4Hl3z…

  34. Shutterbugfun
    December 7th, 2013 @ 9:43 am

    ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/Xps1aNd55K

  35. Low Expectations | Something Fishy
    December 7th, 2013 @ 9:44 am

    […] for all its flaws – and they are legion – South Africa is better off than most other African nations. And Mandela was a key player in […]

  36. lonelycon
    December 7th, 2013 @ 10:01 am

    ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/KnYasfu3tt

  37. SHAWSBLOG1
    December 7th, 2013 @ 10:03 am

    RT @lonelycon: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/KnYasfu3tt

  38. Igor Shafarevich
    December 7th, 2013 @ 10:39 am

    I’m just not sure how anyone of good conscience could implicitly support the evils of the ANC by not actively supporting the Boers.

    Of course, I realize that it’s asking a lot to support the good guys in these days of mass-media-driven moral confusion.

  39. Igor Shafarevich
    December 7th, 2013 @ 10:43 am

    Excellent points.

    Clearly, the enemies of the Christian West recognize that altruism, generosity, and guilt are Western weaknesses which can be relentlessly exploited. Mainly through the ever-shifting mirage of the mass media.

    One correct response to those attacks is to recognize that we are engaged in a war and to embrace the necessary psychology of conflict.

  40. kshaidle
    December 7th, 2013 @ 10:59 am

    RT @rsmccain: ‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’ http://t.co/WYy4Hl3zm9 Hat-tips @kshaidle @AmPowerBlog …

  41. kshaidle
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:02 am

    Just a reminder that Mandela was President of the rape capital of the world RT @rsmccain: http://t.co/egfeKhlD5L

  42. CFLancop
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:02 am

    RT @kshaidle: Just a reminder that Mandela was President of the rape capital of the world RT @rsmccain: http://t.co/egfeKhlD5L

  43. ‘[L]ibertarians who reject reality may be doomed to extinction’
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  44. FACLC
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:18 am

    RT @kshaidle: Just a reminder that Mandela was President of the rape capital of the world RT @rsmccain: http://t.co/egfeKhlD5L

  45. upyoursideways
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:53 am

    I am fortunate to have been born in America. I hate slavery worse than anyone. If I could dig up the fools that brought slaves here and kill them again, I would. Look what they left us with. The descendants of slaves who have done nothing but moan, groan and commit crime. One thing I cannot understand is why any white person EVER moved to Africa. What the hell were they thinking?

  46. SDN
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:54 am

    Google up Kim du Toit’s old article, “Let Africa Sink”. It will cure any delusions about why “Africa Always Wins”.

  47. SDN
    December 7th, 2013 @ 11:55 am

    Just because it’s clear doesn’t mean it’s water….

  48. ZION'S TRUMPET » Dispelling the Sainthood of Mandella
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:27 pm

    […] Or, as Bob Belvedere calls him, Saint Nelson of the Blessed Necklace Stacy McCain has posted some more useful context as to what South Africa has become after Saint Nelson rose to power. South Africa has some, shall we say problems, like being the rape capital of the world […]

  49. aliswell
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:29 pm

    When the whites first moved to SA there were actually very few blacks there, and those that lived nearby were not of the same kind that dominate the entire region now.

  50. OldmanRick
    December 7th, 2013 @ 12:35 pm

    Or Bill Ayers.