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SA’s 604 overseas refugees

 

HuntleyRefugeeCanadaSASucks_StarSept22009 HuntleyRefugeeCanadaNewScandalClaimsSAPropagandaMachineStarSept52009 Sept. 6 2009 – The South African government has launched its propaganda war against the Canadian government’s decision to grant refugee rights to white South African Brandon Huntley because of the racist-job discrimination targetting whites like him under SA law, and because of the fact that he is terrified of returning to the country because of the frequent attacks he was subjected to by armed South African blacks.

The Canadian immigration authorities gave him refugee status, stating that the South African government appeared to be ‘unable or unwilling’ to protect whites such as Huntley. The South African government has turned this man’s flight from the country into an international diplomatic row, demanding that the Canadian government withdraw Huntley’s refugee status and send him back at once.

And the Saturday Star revealed on Saturday that Huntley was not alone: Canada has granted asylum to a further 32 South Africans. And there are more than 600 South Africans living as refugees across the world. Some reasons for asylum are however medical: several Afrikaans families have literally fled from South Africa’s abundant sunlight: they were granted permanent refuge because they suffer from familial porphyria – an extreme sensitivity to sunlight which occurs often in Afrikaner families.  They were allowed to resettle in a small northern Canadian town which has the lowest number recorded sunlight hours per year and reportedly now are thriving and contributing to the economy as new settlers.

There are 170 South Africans with legal refugee status in Germany, 111 in the USA, 46 in Ireland, 33 in Canada, 24 in the UK, 18 in France and 15 in Australia.(From our information, it is also believed that some ten applications are also pending in New Zealand.) http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=180&art_id=vn20090905081708384C542654

Homeless Afrikaner whites denied jobs because of their skin colour Helpende Hand picture Picture: Some 1-million of the country’s 3-million Afrikaners now are empoverished, unemployable and homeless. Whites even with the best qualifications are being denied all access to the job market ,  denied government food-aid and public housing or benefits because they are ‘previously advantaged’ whites. Picture by Solidarity Trade Union’s Helpende Hand organisation, De Wet Potgieter

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According to the civil rights movement Afriforum and the food-aid agency for the country’s 1-million homeless, unemployable Afrikaners, the ‘Helpende Hand’ of the Solidarity Trade Union, more than 800,000 Afrikaans whites have already left the country of their forebears permanently since 1994, in a massive new migration pattern. The local embassies of New Zealand, Australia and Canada even hold regular information seminars to accommodate the large number of emigration-applications they receive. These Afrikaans human-rights organisations say that the main reason for this huge migration to other Western countries given by these migrants is the black-on-white violent crime and the anti-white job discrimination problems they have experienced at first hand, just like Huntley testified he had suffered from.

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Brandon Huntley, 31, gets refugee status in Canada because of racist persecution by black South Africans:

  • Reach the South African-educated barrister specialist who obtained this unique result, Russell Kaplan, on the following website: http://www.travel-net.com/~kaplan/index.swf

    Huntley Brandon persecuted white SA granted asylum in Canada Brandon Huntley, 31, was attacked seven times, cursed as a ‘white dog’ and a ‘settler’ during stabbings:

    Donna Casey, a journalist at SunMedia in Ottawa, Canada reports (contact: donna.casey@sunmedia.ca)

    August 31 2009 -- White South African Brandon Huntley, 31, was granted refugee status in Canada, after an immigration board panel ruled that he, as a white man, would be persecuted if he returned home to South Africa, Donna Casey writes in the Ottawa Sun.

    • This is the first time a white South African has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming persecution from black South Africans, she writes.

    (My comment) White South Africans have been given permanent refuge in Canada before however – but not for racial reasons. Several Afrikaner family members were granted asylum after proving that they  suffer very debilitating medical problems due their genital oversensitivy to sunlight (porphyria). The Viviers family settled in Prince Rupert, a town with very few  sunlight hours a year. Many Afrikaner families suffer from this congenital condition. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=fe203437-0eac-432b-9a7e-b4042598a366

    However, Brandon Huntley, 31, presented "clear and convincing proof of the state's inability or unwillingness to protect him", the Canadian immigration and refugee board panel ruled last Thursday.

    • Claimant would ‘stand out like a sore thumb” (in South Africa).

    "I find that the claimant would stand out like a 'sore thumb' due to his colour in any part of the country,” tribunal panel chair William Davis said.

    Attacked seven times – stabbed three times

    Huntley's "subjective fear of persecution remained constant and consistent" up to the time he made his refugee claim, Davis noted.

    The Canadian newspaper reported that Huntley - who grew up in Mowbray, Cape Town - had been attacked seven times by black South Africans and stabbed three times. He said he was called a "white dog" and a "settler" during these attacks.

    "There's a hatred of what we (whites) did to them and it's all about the colour of your skin," Huntley reportedly said.
    He first went to Canada on a six-month work permit in 2004, and returned in 2005. He stayed on illegally and made a refugee claim in April 2008, the Ottawa Sun reported.

    “If you have got the money, you can protect yourself,” Huntley said of the armed security guards wealthy white South Africans hire to protect themselves.

    • Huntley’s “subjective fear of persecution remained constant and consistent” up to the time he made his refugee claim, Davis noted in his decision on Huntley’s claim.

    Sister of Huntley’s South African lawyer testified on his behalf:

    The decision also took into account testimony by Laura Kaplan, 41, the sister of Huntley’s lawyer, who emigrated to Canada last year from her native South Africa.

    • Laura Kaplan testified about being threatened by armed black South Africans and the torture of her brother Robert in 1997 when a gang of black men broke into his house, tortured him for eight hours, shot him three times and left him for dead.

    His solicitor, barrister Russell Kaplan, told Beeld newspaper on August 31 2009 that they had in addition to the testimony, also submitted many articles and crime reports from South African newspapers, dealing with the ‘ crime problem’ , to underscore their application.

    “Huntley) referred three or four times during his testimony to the idea ‘payback from way back’. Basically the idea that now, it’s the black people’s turn (to suppress), whereas beforehand, it had been white people’s turn…’ said Kaplan.

    The barrister said that Huntley was very happy with the ruling. “He feels wonderful. He was really terrified of returning to South Africa,’ he told Beeld. http://www.beeld.co.za

    He appears before the Refugee Protection Division, Immigration Division and Immigration Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board and before the Trial Division in the Federal Court of Canada.

    SA government ‘indifferent or unable’ to protect white South Africans:

    The Immigration Board chairman, Davis also had scathing remarks for the SA government in his summary, noting that “the evidence of Huntley and Laura Kaplan “show a picture of indifference and inability or unwillingness” of the South African government to protect “white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans.” donna.casey@sunmedia.ca http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/08/28/10659546.html

    The South African government is not well-pleased – attacking the Canadian decision as ‘racist.’

    The ruling has however struck a chord with many whites inside South Africa, with many saying that the Government has done nothing to stop a wave of attacks on white farmers since 1994 – during which more than 3,060 farmers their relatives and workers have been killed. Whites also point out that the violent-crime rate is much worse than is currently being published -- as the government also is deliberately failing to make the latest public crime statistics in the hope of improving the country’s image ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup.

    AfriForum, a Afrikaner civil rights organisation, noted that there had been a massive emigration of whites from the country, with a huge brain drain since the end of apartheid in 1994, mainly contributed to the huge crime wave which followed in its wake.

    AfriForum asked the Home Affairs minister to appoint a task team to probe the reasons for emigration of such minority communities: Kanadese vlugtelingstatus-beslissing roep om besinning

    A recent report by the South African Institute on Race Relations also said that up to the end of 2007, some 800,000 whites out of a population of four million had left the country since 1994. As a comparison with a country in a very similar situation, neighbouring Zimbabwe, of the original 250,000 whites living there 25 years ago,  25,000 still remained by 2008, despite that country’s massive socio-economic problems and the many armed attacks and land-confiscations targetting white agriculturalists in that country, the violent-crime rate is much less in Zimbabwe than it is in South Africa.

    White SA crime refugee says he simply told it like it is:
    http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5148685

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