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

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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?

 

197 comments

  1. Dammit, Stacy, the peaceful post-apartheid black government of South Africa has stated with unassailable moral authority that AIDS is a white conspiracy against black people, so you have no business bringing that up…

  3. It’s one thing to have a peaceful transition of government power from repressive minority.

    It’s another thing for that majority to govern wisely

  5. While it is a fact that the transition was peaceful, the people that got power were anything but. Mandela was a terrorist slug among terrorist slugs. The ANC in power is his true legacy and they refuse defend the white minority. At least the white minority tried to defend the blacks against crime. Like it or not, apartheid was part of that. You may not like it, but there it is.

    The worst is yet to come in SA, and that future looks like Zimbabwe.

  6. You know Nelson Mandela did not rape 17 year old Jamie Paterson. He was not even president when that attack occurred (which was in 2007). And that attack was not an ANC sanctioned act, but a violent attack by a criminal group.

    The crime and violence in South Africa is very high. Most of it is black on black, but (while the current government is responsible for not doing enough) I do not think you can blame this on Nelson Mandela.

    I am all for the truth and full disclosure about Mandela’s past. While the ANC certainly has not done enough to control crime and was criminally negligent in dealing with HIV/AIDS when it took power in the 1990s (the later which goes absolutely to Mandela), what the criticism of Mandela should be is his hypocrisy in attacking the West (such as in 2003 with the Iraq War) while never criticizing his Communist supporters for their civil rights abuses.

  8. There is another issue that I was unaware of until a Physician commenter over at AmSpec brought it up. I knew the higher ed system had basically gone to the dogs. I also thought that Medical training was still first rate in SA. Turns out I was dead wrong. SA trained physicians can not work in other commonwealth countries without further training or retraining. New Zealand has locked them out entirely, apparently. I wonder what Zer0care will do to us in the end.

    A higher ed bubble may be the least of our worries as professional training sinks into the septic tank.

  9. It is part of South Africa’s legacy (of which Mandela and the ANC share a big role). This is not even a situation like Detroit where you can point the blame for its decline absolutely at Democrat Party and Union corruption.

  11. They’re kinda already there. With the overwhelming natural resources at the their disposal, this old commodity dog cannot for the life of me figure out how insane the Joeburgh gov’t’s leadership must be to not be cashing in on it.

  12. People forget, Robert Mugabe started out reasonably decent, as well, before descending into the madness we see today. While Mandela did not do so himself, the party apparatus he controlled most probably will do so in short order. The reason for that is simple: The government doesn’t work. There is no rule of law and no security for SA’s citizens regardless of race. Further, the majority’s circumstances are not appreciably better. Thus, the government will blame the minority and proceed to appropriate those parts of the economy that work in order to hand them over to cronies. It will happen. I give it less than five years.

  13. I am not a fan of the ANC’s policies. Mandela obviously never spoke out enough on the forces that are truly endangering this county (and most of the rape of South African children is black criminal gangs raping young blacks in a though it is a way to avoid HIV or even cure it).

    The ANC is not governing wisely. But if you think some of you are helping the cause of truth by ignoring what good Mandela did (which was substantial during that critical period) while focusing on South African crimes done more than ten years after Mandela was President of South Africa–excuse me if I seem to miss the point.

  15. The Detroit comparison is not mine, but I do think it interesting that Detroit is not quite twice as bad as South Africa. Personally, I think the comparison irrelevant, even if Stacy does not. The fact is that SA is rapidly becoming a 3rd world country.

  18. I truly hope I’m wrong. But the history of black Africa is against it. The ANC got substantial aid through Rhodesia, and later Angola. Mugabe is, in the end, their pattern.

    That’s why those that are smart are leaving while they can.

  19. EBL, what happened was this: Kathy Shaidle put that video (without comment or explanation) at the end of her PJM post, which I reached by way of David Swindle’s post, which had been linked by Drew M. to say that it was wrong for conservatives to emphasize Mandela’s terrorist past.

    OK, fine, but how much have we heard about the post-Mandela present in South Africa? Yes, we know that apartheid is over, all well and good, but how are things otherwise there?

    Turns out, things are pretty bad. Maybe not as bad as Detroit, but still pretty bad. Perhaps this was not the exact nightmare scenario predicted by those who, 25 years ago, opposed the ANC’s aspirations, but it is a nightmare scenario nonetheless — and generally worse for blacks (except for the ruling political elite) than for whites, although not good for them, either.

    Democracy for democracy’s sake — Edmund Burke had some thoughts about the potential problems with that, back in 1790.

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