Klerksdorp Hospital, where doctors have been expelled by force by rioting strikers. Photo supplied.

South Africa: ‘Rioters in operating theatres’ as Northwest chaos spreads

Amid the rioting and carnage plaguing South Africa's Northwest Province, hospitals are now being invaded by strikers who threaten to 'burn doctors alive'.

Published: May 6, 2018, 12:49 pm

    Rioters in South Africa’s North West Province blocked access to hospitals yesterday and threatened to set doctors on fire who attempted to continue their work.

    On Friday morning, rioting strikers blocked access to the Potchefstroom hospital. Doctors who tried to gain access to the building were threatened with being burnt to death, Dr. Ebrahim Veriava, a specialist at the Tshepong Hospital, said.

    One doctor took a video of burning tires outside a hospital while another photographed strikers who expelled doctors from the Klerksdorp hospital wards by force.

    Klerksdorp is the main hospital in the area which deals with all the most serious disease cases across the province.

    The South African National Defense Force is supposed to already have the North West Province “under control”.

    The black trade union Nehawu has been busy with a go-slow strike strike in the province since February. The supply of medicines from the main medicine warehouse was initially affected, but now nurses are prevented from working. The trade union is apparently opposed to “corruption in the health sector” and a staff shortage in hospitals.

    It is alleged that the number of posts for doctors and nurses has decreased by more than 1000 over the last three years.

    The riots in the health sector are linked to the unrest surrounding the provincial prime minister, Supra Mahumapelo, who is accused of large-scale corruption. Mahumapelo is also an ally of the disgraced former South African president, Jacob Zuma.

    Veriava, a former head of internal medicine at Wits University, wrote an open letter last week with 70 other doctors asking for intervention in the province as patients are currently suffering as a result of the unrest and chaos.

    According to the letter, TB patients do not receive their medication on time because of the scarcity of medicines that can cause TB patients to become drug-resistant, which can spread the disease further. Currently pregnancies are not properly dealt with due to the disorder.

    Yusuf Veriava and the other doctors urged the trade union Nehawu not to disrupt the hospitals anymore. They also requested that a task team be set up, as the hospital security services cannot stop rioters from entering hospitals.

    ‘Rioters in operating theatres’

    An NGO, funded by George Soros’s Open Society Group, Section 27, has condemned the violence in hospitals in a public statement.

    The group said: “The violence and disruption of healthcare services is leading to immediate loss of life as patients are denied entry to health facilities and doctors and others are prevented from providing care. Some of the reports we have received include protesters invading theatres‚ threats to the lives of doctors‚ doctors being forcefully removed from hospital wards and entrances to hospitals being blocked off‚ meaning no supplies or drugs can be delivered.”

    The organisation which is usually in favour of revolutionary and anti-white action in South Africa, was of the opinion that “such forms of protest [were] grossly irresponsible and morally reprehensible”.

    Meanwhile, it is being reported that a political row still rages in the ANC around the dismissal, or not, of the North-West premier Supra Mahumapelo. Over the weekend a “tense meeting” took place on the premises of the Hotel School in Mahikeng, the capital of the province. The ANC delegation was led by the minister in the presidency and former opponent of President Cyril Ramaphosa in the party, Mrs. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. During a three-hour meeting with Mahumapelo they apparently discussed allegations of corruption and tender fraud, as well as Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to place the provincial health department under administration.

    Apparently there is frantic organising by the Zuma faction to prevent Mahumapelo from being fired by the ANC’s national executive committee, which is meeting on Tuesday. “The feeling is that Ramaphosa is dealing with them [his opponents] one by one, so they need to be organised and fight back,” said an ANC leader from within the party.

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    11 comments

    1. Human devolution in progress..

      Comment by L Garou on May 8, 2018 at 2:34 pm

    2. Did they ever evolve?

      Comment by archer on May 10, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    3. Order out of Chaos, no doubt the globalists will be there to lend a helping hand when the blacks are starving to death. By helping hand I mean gold and diamonds for food and military occupation. What can you say, this white hate is out of hand but genious of the globalists that pushed the agenda knowing it’s outcomes and ready to take advantage of it. I notice msm doesn’t like to talk about this only the usual globalist agendas of minority rights, regime change for israel and ww3 with russia and nk and how well the fake bernie maddof ponzi scheme wall street is doing.

      Comment by Katana Man on May 9, 2018 at 4:58 am

    4. I wish there were a way that i could expand upon the words that you just stated, but alas… what’s not to understand there? Thank you so very much for stating what needed to be stated. “In times of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act.” –GEORGE ORWELL https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a8dabc223c3a6f64a4d30c6dff43236f7abd9997e5c032f0a396dd6003fadc3.jpg

      Comment by sdguy on May 9, 2018 at 3:43 pm

    5. Let the rest of the world take the whites under theire arms and let the savages have africa for them self and don`t let them out. They wil aventagely die out because they can not produce anything, only kill everything

      Comment by Djago on May 10, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    6. That will never happen, Africa is resource rich, they have the most gold mines in the world and diamonds. They need the place to be destabilised so that foreigners can steal their resources plain and simple. That’s how globalists work, just like the old monarchs and imperialists of past but now that zionism runs the show it’s all made to look humanitarian and for democracy, just like how greece got sucked in then the globalist billionaires came in and bought up islands and whatever they could get cheap after loaning greece money so that the politicans and rich could waste it then get the people to pay for it with austerity. Truly the one percent are users to the highest degree.

      Comment by Katana Man on May 14, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    7. Deporting all Jews is the first step in maintaining order. Parasitic Jews have destroyed every country they have ever inhabited.

      Comment by Hermie on May 9, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    8. Why is it when blacks take over a country, it collapses?? Same thing has happened in american cities like detroit, baltimore and camden.

      You need engineers and businessmen and scientists to maintain a modern high-tech country. Very few africans can even read.

      Comment by SpeedersKill on May 9, 2018 at 7:47 pm

    9. You’re absolutely right

      Comment by Tim Driscoll on January 7, 2021 at 4:10 am

    10. Where is goofball Trump? Busy digging his own grave for AIPAC is he?
      You suck Resident Evil. You and your Sanhedrin Masters will go to HELL.

      Comment by Jo Jo Cintia on May 10, 2018 at 5:43 am

    11. Should whites attempt to build civilization on the African Continent we would be wise to remove the majority of negroes as they are incompatible with civilization.

      Comment by Belinda Boundreau on May 11, 2018 at 5:37 pm

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