According to some around here, if they had just had 10/22s and slingshots, they'd have defeated those silly police with their silly modern weapons.

 

LOL!!!

All these 10/22 threads and responses are killing me!

 

Hey, the 10/22 tactical team guys are still better than the $14.99 'Ninja Swords' never jam types...or panga waving and rushing ticked off miners.

 

From what I read if you shoot them in the eye you could stop an aggressor.

 

Then they just circle left -- or right :xeye:

 

still waiting for someone to let me shoot them with a 10/22, for some reason i never get any volunteers, i wonder what it is...

 

As long as they get to go first with their 5.56's and 7.62's I think you'd get some takers.

 

Looks like after losing two cops, those South Africans decided that they weren't going to take any hits from Pangas and spears anymore either.

I do like the backing up...some guys let a mere car stop them. I'd be like a cat but going backwards, firing if a band of machete and club waving guys were rushing me.

 

South Africa is the rape capital of the world for a reason.

 

Its Africa. I live here but the things are done way differently here than you can ever imagine. To make sense out of the actions as in the OP is not possible.

 

I Wouldnt even try to make sense of it.I have seen enough to know I would never raise a family there.

 

Hey African Police, I hear it helps if you aim down the sights?

 

Well I think this reminds a lot of people of the 76 shooting in Soweto where the Police still looked threw the sights and had 7.62 FAL's The guns the used where R5's not R4's witch is a copy of the Galil

 

Actually, in films from another angle (90° right from the mob) you can see:
1) Police are shooting them wiht bean bags, then they start running.
2) You can see at least one of the mob shooting back with a pistol.

About the police mowing them:
1) They are african strikers.
2) A faction fo the strikes already killed some of the other. And 2 cops.
So... can't blame the police.

 

The cops here are taking a beating over this, incorrectly so i believe.

With all the additional politicizing that is taking place now this has far deeper reaching consequences than most locals even believe, not to mention the rest of the world.

I watch all this intently as it can (as with every other african strike I have had the unfortunate luck to be caught in the middle of) very quickly blow up and out of control AMAZINGLY fast. One loud mouth telling the crowd exactly what they want to hear can quickly result in disaster.

 

On Saturday the German police retreated when facing 1000 Muslim rioters in Mannheim, Germany.

None of the rioters could be arrested, because the police had to retreat. 600 LEOs did retreat. 80 LEOs were injured, 13 police cars destroyed.

That is the price you have to pay if some left-wing government is in charge (state government) petting the bad guys and not allowing other force than pepper spray.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/80-polizisten-verletzt-schwere-ausschreitungen-bei-kurdenfest-in-mannheim-11884214.html

 

Which is kinda ironic since the Germans are traditionally very good at crowd control. That may be tasteless, however....the Germans have a very very good police force. The only reason that crowd wasn't put down, hard, would be from political pressure at the highest levels. Not from any shortcomings of the police themselves.

 

Wonder why this was on CHINESE TV but we never saw a thing????? I would wonder, except I Know why......

 

because SA is in bed with China...

 

Who owns most mines and who does not care about working conditions?

There are always two sides of a coin.

 

Most of the exploration and development in RSA's mining industry stopped 10 years ago when the Govt started bastardising the companies (seen as white owned) and the white professional mining engineers and geologists. (We've got a lot of them over here in Oz now). Exploration is usually 10 years ahead of production.

What we're seeing now is the results of this. The pig has moved through the python and the writing is on the wall for these mines. Without developmental and exploration expertise, they will soon exhaust their mapped & proven deposits and start scrabbling in the dark and become unprofitable.

 

to bad that america abandoned both Rodhesia and South Africa.
We will always regret that little Ted Kennedy move.

 

42,500 ticked off striking miners in SA now!

It was bad with 34 charging scores of officers, imagine 42,500 going after the 400 cops present!

 

Than again Africa has some awesome pictures!

 

Now they have songs regarding this stuff?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/south-africa-mining-protest-soundtrack_n_1870654.html

 

Waiiiit a minute, didn't we see this in Zulu?
http://366filmsin2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/zulu-dawn.jpg

 

No, that's from Zulu Dawn, depicting Isandlwana, the prequel to the much earlier made Zulu. Isandlwana was a bad one...the Brits lost that one. Lost it bad. Disgracefully, actually...Burt Lancaster tried to warn them, but Peter O'Toole was too arrogant to listen.

In Zulu Michael Caine and some forgotten British actor faced down the Zulus at Roarke's Drift and did much better.




I betcha the Boers were shaking their heads in disgust at the Brits on that war. The Boers faced Zulu Impis with their family, servants, wagons and animals in tow and did better.

 

Have a look at this sums it up and its true

 

This was written in 2002. From a REAL "African American" named Kim Dutoit. I miss his writing and ideas. The name of the essay is "Let Africa Sink".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924795/posts

 

KdT, there's a name I never expected to see here.
He and his wife ended up in Texas as I recall.

 

from what I understand SA can expect more trouble when Mendela goes .... and he's down to his last dance

 

I don't think there's going to be trouble....
there will just be big funeral parties....it will just be an excuse to spend millions of taxpayers money again, while others are starving !