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Thread ID: 6820 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-05-20
2003-05-20 19:16 | User Profile
South Africa 'white slave' mystery
*Police are seeking the parents of an 18-year-old white South African boy, who says he has spent six years as the slave of a black family. *
The boy, known as "Happy Sidane" can only speak the Ndebele language but told police that his parents were Afrikaans-speakers. He said that he was given to a black family by a domestic worker employed by his parents when he was aged six. "We are treating this as a kidnapping case," police spokesman Percy Morokane told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. He said that "a lot" of people had already contacted the police in connection with the boy.
Wedding photos
"Happy Sidane" can remember little except that he was born on 4 May 1985 and lived in Johannesburg, along with his parents and a small dog. He can also recall his parents' wedding photographs at their home. He is described as a brown-eyed, blond boy. He told police that he first lived with the black family in the north-eastern town of Verena before the couple split up. He then moved with the woman and her family to the nearby township of Tweefontein. "He said he attended a primary school where he was teased because he was white," Mr Morokane said. The boy remembers seeing his picture on television between 1994 and 1999. But when he told his adopted mother, she threw him against a wall and banned him from watching television, he said. He left school at grade five to look after his "grandfather's" animals.
Poison threat
He said he was treated like a slave and was beaten if he did anything wrong. Last year, his "grandfather" threatened to poison him so he ran away. He returned after three months working on an orange farm but the threats continued. He then turned himself into the police, accompanied by a female friend. "Everyone has been captivated by this story," the police spokesman said. The case has now been handed over to the police Missing Person's Bureau and Child Protection Unit.
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3044351.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3044351.stm[/url]
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South Africa was better off with Apartheid. Despite the claims of black oppression the truth is it is actually the other way around. And it seems that despite blacks' claim that they are the victims of slavery it is more than evident (from both the historical and today's record) that blacks are as "guilty" as ever other race in this regard, perhaps even more so.
2003-05-20 19:23 | User Profile
Originally posted by Alka@May 20 2003, 14:16 South Africa was better off with Apartheid.
Sure, but if they brought apartheid back then we'd be once again subjected to all the never-ending, nauseating Peter Gabriel / Sun City songs on the radio and Whoopi Goldberg / Danny Glover movies. :(
2003-05-20 19:26 | User Profile
Bring it on. I can always turn the channel. Just cause some asses with an agenda feel they want to whine about it, doesn't mean we have to either respect or listen to them.
2003-05-24 18:18 | User Profile
[img]http://www.news24.com/Images/Photos/20030521154735Happy.jpg[/img]
Is this kid ââ¬ÅWhite?ââ¬Â From this photo itââ¬â¢s hard to tell.
2003-05-24 22:11 | User Profile
Originally posted by seq@May 24 2003, 12:18 ** Is this kid ââ¬ÅWhite?ââ¬Â From this photo itââ¬â¢s hard to tell. **
He looks like he has some Capoid admixture (I could be wrong) which is not uncommon for Cape Afrikaners. Notice his prognathous jaw.