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Race Riots in South Africa’s Birthplace

CULEMBORG in the Netherlands is the birthplace of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch East India Company bureaucrat who founded Cape Town, and thus in a sense the city is the birthplace of South Africa. That country’s had more than its fair share of racial tensions, but NRC Handelsblad reports that race riots recently erupted in Holland’s Culemborg. The rioting was not between Dutchmen and foreigners but rather between Moroccan and Moluccan youths in the district of Terweijde.

“It’s typical of ‘young male syndrome’ says a riot-expert with 25 years experience,” the article informs us. There’s rather something of Peter Simple in referring to a “riot expert with 25 years experience”. In NRC’s case, they are referring to behavioural scientist Otto Adang, but one could easily imagine Michael Wharton referring to a football hooligan or some other ne’er-do-well as “a riot expert with 25 years experience”.

Published at 3:48 pm on Friday 8 January 2010. Categories: Netherlands Tags: , .
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Even “behavioural scientist Otto Adang” could be an invention of Peter Simple.

— Robert H. 8 Jan 2010 5:29 pm

WE ARE ALL GUILTY!

— Dr. Heinz Kiosk 8 Jan 2010 6:21 pm
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