This murder is a sad and tragic loss of life and medical manpower to the Red Deer community. It is ironic that a doctor trained in apartheid era South Africa who fled to Canada after apartheid was dismantled and was fast tracked by the Alberta Medical Association to get a license as was the case with many other South African apartheid era physicians was slaughtered in Alberta by an African of all people. Caucasian South African apartheid era physicians were giving special treatment by the Alberta government and actively recruited to work in Alberta, a privilege not given to other foreign trained physician and some of these physicians now in Alberta are under investigation by the South African government for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the apartheid era on black South Africans.
This murder is a sad and tragic loss of life and medical manpower to the Red Deer community. It is ironic that a doctor trained in apartheid era South Africa who fled to Canada after apartheid was dismantled and was fast tracked by the Alberta Medical Association to get a license as was the case with many other South African apartheid era physicians was slaughtered in Alberta by an African of all people. Caucasian South African apartheid era physicians were giving special treatment by the Alberta government and actively recruited to work in Alberta, a privilege not given to other foreign trained physician and some of these physicians now in Alberta are under investigation by the South African government for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the apartheid era on black South Africans.
The killer was a Sudanese who never experienced apartheid, so must find some other excuse. BTW, with people like this around, apartheid may not be such a bad idea.
I do not believe that there is any justification for the killing this doctor due to South Africa's apartheid past or the fact that the deceased physician was from South Africa. I was merely pointed out Alberta's favouritism and bias towards bringing in physicians from South Africa and enabling their licensure over other that of other foreign trained doctors. South Africa is known to have excellent medical schools but so do many other countries and physicians. Physicians wanted for questioning or charges in South Africa are now and have been in the past welcomed to practice in Alberta, the other provinces would not touch them. Alberta has enough right wing ideology that it is not surprising that apartheid era criminals would be welcomed there. In fact Stephen Harper and the disgraced Tony Clement were founders of pro-Apartheid student groups at the University of Toronto and Jason Kenney is one of their offsprings. With the fall of apartheid safety and privilege for South African whites has eroded resulting in a large exodus out of South Africa. I would imagine that the last place that an expatriate South African white would expect to be hacked and battered to death by a machete and a hammer by a black African would be in small town backwoods Alberta.
The killer was a Sudanese who never experienced apartheid, so must find some other excuse. BTW, with people like this around, apartheid may not be such a bad idea.