https://www.scmp.com/rss/500507/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Four people in South Africa accused of hate speech against local Chinese people have admitted guilt and agreed to hundreds of hours of community service as punishment – even before the case has ended. The matter stems from anti-Chinese comments made on social media in January 2017 after a video went viral showing the slaughter of donkeys for their skins, allegedly to be illegally exported for the Chinese medicinal market. Among the most offending comments were that Chinese were “vile, barbaric... https://www.scmp.com/society/south-africa-four-people-admit-engaging-hate-speech-against-local-chinese/article/3041229?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/south-africa-four-people-admit-engaging-hate-speech-against-local-chinese/article/3041229?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:26:49 +0000 Four of 12 people in South Africa accused of hate speech against local Chinese people have admitted guilt and agreed to hundreds of hours of community service as punishment – even before the case has ended. The matter stems from anti-Chinese comments made on social media in January 2017 after a video went viral showing the slaughter of donkeys for their skins, allegedly to be illegally exported for the Chinese medicinal market. Among the most offending comments were that Chinese were “vile,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3041181/four-people-admit-guilt-landmark-chinese-hate-speech-case-south?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3041181/four-people-admit-guilt-landmark-chinese-hate-speech-case-south?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:20:55 +0000 South Africa is facing numerous challenges, from low economic growth and high unemployment and crime, to occasional outbreaks of xenophobic violence where foreigners have been routinely accused by locals of stealing jobs. Despite these problems, Chinese working and living in South Africa remain largely optimistic about the country’s future – and none interviewed in recent weeks by the South China Morning Post say they want to leave. Kim Lee, the 76-year-old proprietor of Lee’s Chinese Restaurant... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3036532/chinese-who-call-south-africa-home-despite-violence-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3036532/chinese-who-call-south-africa-home-despite-violence-and?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:00:11 +0000 The next time a criminal suspect is apprehended by a Johannesburg police officer, it may well be because of a martial arts-style kick to the knees, one of numerous non-lethal techniques taught by Chinese policing and unarmed combat experts. Responding to operational needs in South Africa’s biggest city, a group of 28 Johannesburg police have gone through an intensive two-week training programme provided by members of the Fujian Police College in China. Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD)... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3025494/chinese-experts-train-crime-hardened-police-south-africas-biggest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3025494/chinese-experts-train-crime-hardened-police-south-africas-biggest?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2019 07:31:14 +0000 Some call him “the ghost”, others “night crawler” or “night prowler”, according to media reports in South Africa. Police in Pretoria seem reluctant to call him anything or even admit they may be dealing with the country’s latest serial killer. Five homeless men have been founded stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the capital since the start of June. All had knife wounds in the upper body and were hit on the head with a blunt instrument – possibly a hammer. Four of the murders were in Magnolia... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3016023/fears-serial-killer-stalking-street-sleepers-throws-spotlight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3016023/fears-serial-killer-stalking-street-sleepers-throws-spotlight?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:33:48 +0000 A blockbuster inquiry into corruption in South Africa is examining a deal with a Chinese train company that blew out to US$3.75 billion. It is also probing “success fees” allegedly paid to firms linked to a billionaire family that has been associated with the country’s scandal-plagued ex-president. Justice Raymond Zondo has been overseeing the so-called State Capture Commission of Inquiry since last August. The inquiry was signed into law as one of the last acts of former president Jacob Zuma... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3013712/chinese-rail-deal-under-scrutiny-south-africa-state-capture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3013712/chinese-rail-deal-under-scrutiny-south-africa-state-capture?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Jun 2019 02:16:50 +0000 Sixty-nine South African gold-miners who spent five days deep underground in Orkney, northwest of Johannesburg, engaged in a sit-in over the refusal by the mine’s Chinese owners to meet their demands have ended their protest and returned to the surface, safe and with almost all their demands met. Just a day before, the mine-owners, Chinese African Precious Metal Company (CAPM), had from their head offices in Shanghai dismissed all the mineworkers’ demands out of hand. The underground sit-in,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3011569/chinese-firm-caves-workers-demands-after-five-day-underground-sit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3011569/chinese-firm-caves-workers-demands-after-five-day-underground-sit?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 May 2019 14:04:45 +0000 At Orkney, in South Africa’s North West province, gold miners are staging a sit-in strike nearly 3km underground against a wage decision made by the troubled mine’s Chinese owners. The shock move by 69 disgruntled employees, including 14 women, has triggered the involvement of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and two South African government departments. The strike sit-in which began Saturday – one of the first and the largest of its kind – has thrown the mine-owners into a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3011283/angry-workers-refuse-emerge-underground-mine-south-africa-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3011283/angry-workers-refuse-emerge-underground-mine-south-africa-after?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 May 2019 04:47:44 +0000 There are sinister forces trying to undermine South Africa’s national unity through racism and attacks on foreigners, according to the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. That was his view on Freedom Day on April 27, the 25th anniversary of the first post-apartheid elections. Ramaphosa was responding to an increase of racist attacks before the May 8 election which his African National Congress (ANC) party looks set to win, although probably with a reduced majority. Racism and xenophobia have... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3008305/how-south-africa-election-being-shaped-xenophobia-and-apathy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3008305/how-south-africa-election-being-shaped-xenophobia-and-apathy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:42:33 +0000 South African businesses are increasingly having their executives learn Mandarin and take cultural sensitivity classes so they can work more effectively with their Chinese partners. The same trend is found in colleges, where students are looking to China to further their education. These developments are among the latest in the continually strengthening ties between Africa’s most developed economy and China, building on connections linked to the Belt and Road Initiative, which stretches into... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3007946/how-chinas-belt-and-road-plan-making-south-africans-study?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3007946/how-chinas-belt-and-road-plan-making-south-africans-study?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:30:12 +0000 A courtroom showdown over “genocidal hate speech”, labelling Chinese people living in South Africa as the “scum of the Earth”, is underway in Johannesburg. The anti-Chinese hate speech case began last month in the South Gauteng High Court’s equality court. Twelve respondents, alleged to have posted “humiliating and intimidating” comments online, according to The Chinese Association (TCA), are answering for their views. The association’s supporters flooded the public gallery of the court at the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3006018/dagger-our-backs-racism-no-longer-just-black-and-white-south?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3006018/dagger-our-backs-racism-no-longer-just-black-and-white-south?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:00:10 +0000