I'm not sure how accurate Robto's statistics are, he is claiming that about 6,498 whites have been murdered in South Africa since the end of apartheid, yet if you Google the subject you come across frequent claims of the real number being more like 70,000-80,000 whites murdered since the end of Apartheid.
80,000 sounds very much like an exaggeration of the numbers, yet equally 6,500 sounds way too low, as is often the case I suspect the real figure is probably somewhere in the middle. Also I certainly wouldn't trust statistics published by the highly corrupt ANC government who have a clear racial agenda and play on that for the black vote.
Genocide Watch recognises that the white minority in South Africa is at risk of genocide and has done so for some years. As far as I'm aware Genocide Watch is a respected authority on genocide and not some fringe far-right group with a racially biased agenda.
It doesn't surprise me that the overall murder rate of South Africa hasn't changed much, after all blacks make up the vast majority of the South African population and mostly live in similar conditions now to what they lived in during Apartheid. There's no real reason why the black on black murder rate would have changed that much, and as blacks are the vast majority of the population it is inevitable that black on black murders will make up the vast majority of the murders in terms of sheer numbers.
However, I think it is clear that the murder rate of whites has increased massively since the end of Apartheid. During Apartheid the vast majority of violent crime was forcibly kept confined to the black townships, and as robto points out in a rather biased way, didn't affect white people. However, Apartheid coming to an end has resulted in whites becoming a viciously targeted minority, and if unofficial estimates are to be believed whites are targeted at a far higher rate than the population as a whole.
Also the idea that Apartheid is the cause of the extremely violent culture of blacks in South Africa is frankly utter nonsense as well. Just look at the murder rates for African countries as a whole, they are very comparable to South Africa, almost all Sub-Saharan African countries have murder rates vastly higher than Europe, North America and Asia.
Many people here seem to take the view that Apartheid protecting whites from violent crime is utterly unacceptable, and that there is nothing wrong with a country having a high violent crime rate just so long as the whole of the population is forced to experience the same reality. That view just goes to confirm that multiracial societies are utterly unworkable in the long term, especially multiracial societies of the nature of South Africa.
