Post by cjm on Oct 28, 2013 7:29:56 GMT
From the responses it seems it is ok to kill innocent people (politically motivated terrorism) as long as it is a South African matter.
www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/anc-fumes-over-sexwale-us-arrest-1.1598196#.Um4RD65b37o
www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/anc-fumes-over-sexwale-us-arrest-1.1598196#.Um4RD65b37o
ANC fumes over Sexwale US arrest
October 28 2013 at 07:49am
By Piet Rampedi and Lebogang Seale
Johannesburg - The ANC has expressed outrage at the brief arrest of former Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale in America because his name remains on a US terror watch list of ANC “terrorists”.
Spokesman Keith Khoza said on Sunday night that while the ANC was not aware that the list still existed, South Africa would need to take up the matter “sharply” with President Barack Obama’s administration.
Sexwale was arrested at JF Kennedy Airport while on a business trip to New York last week.
This was because his name was still on a list of people banned in America. The apartheid regime classified the ANC, of which Sexwale is a member, as a terrorist organisation until it’s unbanning in 1990.
Former anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela, had been banned from the US.
The ban was lifted in the late 1990s, but not everyone was removed from the list.
The spokesman for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, Clayson Monyela, confirmed that Sexwale was arrested in the US, but said the detention was only for a few hours.
“What we heard is that the incident (arrest) happened last week and he was detained only for a few hours. We called our consulate in the US and they said they were aware. We haven’t been told why he was detained.”
“He is in the USA. He left some time last week. I am struggling to get hold of him,” Sexwale’s personal assistant, Eureka Smith said.
She promised to get back to The Star once she had managed to contact him, but she had not done so at the time of going to print.
It is understood that Sexwale has since returned to the country.
He has reportedly instructed his lawyer, Lesley Mkhabela, to take up the matter with the US embassy.
Khoza said the ANC was not aware of the arrest, but would immediately take up the matter.
“If the arrest has been as a result of his activities in the struggle against apartheid, I think it’s a matter that South Africa will need to raise sharply with the US because nobody can be arrested for matters that are purely South African in terms of the struggle against apartheid and the role people played in challenging apartheid,” said Khoza.
October 28 2013 at 07:49am
By Piet Rampedi and Lebogang Seale
Johannesburg - The ANC has expressed outrage at the brief arrest of former Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale in America because his name remains on a US terror watch list of ANC “terrorists”.
Spokesman Keith Khoza said on Sunday night that while the ANC was not aware that the list still existed, South Africa would need to take up the matter “sharply” with President Barack Obama’s administration.
Sexwale was arrested at JF Kennedy Airport while on a business trip to New York last week.
This was because his name was still on a list of people banned in America. The apartheid regime classified the ANC, of which Sexwale is a member, as a terrorist organisation until it’s unbanning in 1990.
Former anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela, had been banned from the US.
The ban was lifted in the late 1990s, but not everyone was removed from the list.
The spokesman for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, Clayson Monyela, confirmed that Sexwale was arrested in the US, but said the detention was only for a few hours.
“What we heard is that the incident (arrest) happened last week and he was detained only for a few hours. We called our consulate in the US and they said they were aware. We haven’t been told why he was detained.”
“He is in the USA. He left some time last week. I am struggling to get hold of him,” Sexwale’s personal assistant, Eureka Smith said.
She promised to get back to The Star once she had managed to contact him, but she had not done so at the time of going to print.
It is understood that Sexwale has since returned to the country.
He has reportedly instructed his lawyer, Lesley Mkhabela, to take up the matter with the US embassy.
Khoza said the ANC was not aware of the arrest, but would immediately take up the matter.
“If the arrest has been as a result of his activities in the struggle against apartheid, I think it’s a matter that South Africa will need to raise sharply with the US because nobody can be arrested for matters that are purely South African in terms of the struggle against apartheid and the role people played in challenging apartheid,” said Khoza.