‘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. “You know Nelson Mandela did not rape 17 year old Jamie Paterson”

    Well, the innocence of that crime clearly makes him a saint!

    I guess the glare from all those burning tires has blinded so many people.

  2. I am not saying Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA would be looking as pretty good alternatives for any South African (of any race), and you are absolutely right about the history of Africa and majorities attacking minorities (just ask the San and Tutsi about that). But if the country is fatalistically flawed, it was doomed from the start.

  3. I think Mandela’s SA is fatally flawed, but it was doomed by the British when the Boers allowed them into Orange Free State and Transvaal after the gold discoveries. The Brits imported masses of blacks from further north to work the gold mines and the country was overwhelmed. It led to the two Boer Wars, and the Brit’s invention of the KZ. While the Brits won the Boer Wars, it doomed the empire because the wars took the basic moral heart from the British nation and crushed it.

    Mandela was a slug, but he is more of a symptom than a cause. We see the same basic immorality in the US (our death blow took place in 1861-1865). Fortunately, we still have some time, although not much, before we too crash because of the majority’s immorality.

    There is no living beyond danger. It’s just a matter of minimizing it until it can longer be avoided and then it must be faced. Alas, the evil will be so overwhelming only the return of Christ to rule will end it. The sinful human condition is, itself, terminal.

  6. The Word of God says that men shall be judged for every idle word that comes from their mouths. I so look forward to Him replaying various youtube comments, such as some found on this video, to those who are making them.

  7. Raila Odinga, whom Obama actively campaigned for in Kenya while a sitting Senator, did not hack opposition leaders to death with machetes nor light the church on fire burning to death all the refugees inside. Perhaps it was the whitewashing of those events by the media we find so repugnant now. But it also may be that the failure to condemn those actions by the Odinga’s, Mandela’s and Obama’s, connected by their “ends justify the means” Communist ideology is why we can no longer afford to overlook or excuse them, much less honor them.
    Senator Barack Obama in Kenya
    Obama and Odinga: The True Story

    snip from the article:
    Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to many—including Human Rights Watch—as a coordinated strategy from the top, (“Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees” Reuters 1/26/2008 and “Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report” The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Taliban”(“Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums” Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called “clear ethnic cleansing” (“US Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya ‘Ethnic Cleansing’” USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition.
    Odinga’s supporters went on a rampage—burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (“Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland” The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their path—including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (“Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church” CNN 1/10/2008)

  8. This is a little far for me, honestly.

    Mandela isn’t famous for being a hardcore politico champion of a US style constitutional government.

    The criticism is valid (and I enjoyed the first few articles). But come on…

  9. Yep but, interestingly, many of the same black-armband wearing, mourning-from-a-distance moralizing cheerleaders out in force today are also ardent believers in the ‘power’ of the ‘social gospel.’ You know…the bloodless, crossless one wherein Christ is just an ideal moral example. Or not, depending on one’s preferences.

    God is infinite but His grace and mercy are not. The Lake of Fire will stoke itself.

  11. “You know Nelson Mandela did not rape 17 year old Jamie Paterson.”

    No, but he was directly involved in much worse crimes for which, as far as I’ve heard, he never repented. Innocents being being blown apart, etc. If he ever DID repent of such, I’d love to learn of it.

  12. Yeah, and I’m sure you’ll still defend Reagan for supporting Contra killers( with drug money and arms sales to Iran) who often massacred civilians, along with those El Salvadoran death squads our CIA and Special Forces trained. But hey, as long as it’s fighting communism and market share is maintained for multinationals, then no sweat!

  16. And your point Rob? That a civil war would have been better? Or Apartheid for a few more decades would have resulted in a better result than what exists now? That is speculative at best and frankly unlikely. The change was inevitable, the point is addressing Mandela honestly.

    Mandela was not a man of peace originally. He was a Communist revolutionary. When captured he admitted his guilt and expected to be hung. He was surprised when he was given a life sentence.

    As President, however, Mandela promoted reconciliation and peaceful transition of power. He did not promote socialist economic policies as feared (although no doubt he remained a man of the left his whole life) and South Africa’s economy grew while he was President. He also stepped down after one term rather than rule like the typical African or third world dictator. Why I do not consider Mandela a secular saint, I do believe his efforts in doing what he did as President were a very good thing for South Africa.

    Strange that Obama admires him so. Because President Obama has consistently, when facing opposition, moved to the left. Mandela, knowing he was setting precedence for his country moved to the center.

  17. Thank you, Mr. McCain. A friend of mine from South Africa shared with me Nelson Mandela’s history, and I sat there slack-jawed, thinking “Why do I ever listen to the American media?”

  18. And the South African government during the Apartheid years did not commit atrocities? It was a bad time in South Africa.

    Actually many of the ANC crimes you mention happened when Mandela was a prisoner on Robbens Island. Mandela was convicted of Treason.

  19. “And your point Rob? That a civil war would have been better?”

    That Mandela was a terrorist, a Communist — long after that faith had racked up millions of corpses — and that merely refraining from being a complete monster cannot wash that stain from his record.

    Justify your worship of him all you want, but he wanted to bathe in blood. Perhaps locking him up for decades persuaded him it was a bad idea — in which case was his imprisonment a bad thing?

  21. “Actually many of the ANC crimes you mention happened when Mandela”…

    Let wife was run the show.

    (Man, the Soviets had the BEST damned PR department EVER. Only Apple comes close.)

  24. “Mandela isn’t famous for being a hardcore politico champion of a US style constitutional government.”

    Precisely. Which is why his true record should be remembered.

  26. Ultimately, it is all about geography.

    Africa is a loser in this regard and America is a winner. As simple as that.

    Of course, there is great mineral wealth in Africa, but the political infrastructure doesn’t exist to properly commercialize it in a manner that actually benefits the society. A few thuggish leaders sell out their country’s resources for peanuts.

  27. Well, IMO, the West should be aggressively defending the Boers against ANC aggression.

    It’s life and death down there and, as I understand it, the Boers surrendered their arms as part of the end of apartheid.

    That was a fatal mistake.

  29. For whatever reason, we tend to forget the level of sheer hatred that the more primitive minds harbour for the ideas and institutions of Western civilization.

    It’s truly stunning, actually.

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