Huntley on Huntley

SHOOT: My 2 cents is that after graduating from university I spent a year looking for work [2002-2002]. During that period my house was burgled, car stolen twice, and around the same time my father and sister were attacked in the eastern Cape, robbed and pistol whipped. In 2002 I gave up looking for work, and abandoned a plan to start a business in South Africa. I went to live and work in Korea for 4 years. On paper South Africa beats Korea hands down, but Korea does offer two wonderful opportunities: plentiful work and personal safety. It is not uncommon for women to talk home late at night, alone. It's THAT safe.
I loved South Africa when I returned, but once again, tension over crime is an ever-present, creeping reality. Except that those in authority make it into no big deal, or the perennial favorite, a racial issue, along with everything else, from AIDS to jobs.
Here's what Huntley's laywer said in a recent press release:

clipped from fto.co.za As far as the so-called experts are concerned, who have confidently stated in the past 10 days, that no racial motivation is involved in Mr. Huntley's incidents and other incidents, we can only respond with the following: in a country which for decades was mired in apartheid, resulting in thousands if not millions of marginalized and disenfranchised African South Africans, to think that there is not even a little retribution sought or "payback" by some of those who suffered under the years of apartheid, in the violence on white South Africans, is naivety to the highest degree. Finally, Mr. Huntley's case was not based on only the incidents. It was based on the discriminatory policies of BEE and affirmative action, as well as the general atmosphere of insecurity in South Africa for many white South Africans, and for Mr. Huntley. He relied on these separate aspects to argue that "cumulatively" he had a well founded fear of persecution.