Thursday, December 8, 2011

AFRICA TO BECOME FRITOS AS GLOBE WARMS UP?

NGUMI ZARUSHWA HAPA!!!
Reported physical clashes
on issues of
Global Warming in Durban South Africa





The disruption occurred when activists from NGOs, such as Greenpeace, held up protest posters during a meeting between Zuma and South African civil society.



The posters carried slogans criticising Zuma's climate change policies. One poster read


"Zuma stand with Africa, not with USA"




Another said




"Zuma don't let Africa fry".



Dressed in COP17 green volunteer shirts, Zuma's supporters - mostly from the African National Congress' youth league - started to wrench the posters out of the hands of the activists.



Tensions began to grow as Zuma looked on impassively from the speaker's stage. The situation deteriorated and soon Zuma's supporters, angered by the fact that the activists had tried to disrupt the event, started pushing the activists towards the door and out into the street.



All the while, Zuma's supporters chanted and sang ANC political songs.
Riot police were called and order was restored.



Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo took to the stage and publicly called on Jacob Zuma to negotiate in the interests [of] Africa and not the United States.

Zuma did not reply to Naidoo.


APTN

Video: Zuma supporters clash with environmentalists at COP17 - Story - Environment/Sci - 3 News:



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bloggers note:  This is the second time in almost as many months Mr Zuma is accused of toeing the Obama line on international platforms at the expense of Africa.  These may well turn out to be wild accusations against the State President of the leading political nation force on the Continent, but forcibly throwing out camps expressing such views does not help clarify the issues.  If anything, it strengthens the fears that "maybe we must all of us South Africans seek US citizenship with speed since we are in any case having our lives run already from Washington".  Mr Zuma is the last one to forget that political intolerance severely damaged KwaZulu-Natal's societal fabric some ten years ago and similar hegemonistic tendencies should not be seen to play out once again in KwaZulu-Natal just when our political system has supposedly matured enough from the era of the great Nelson Mandela to the cerebral (albeit short-lived)Thabo-Mbeki era.

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