“He claims I threatened to slit the throats of white children and said, ‘The night of the long knives is coming.’”
The pretty surf town of Jeffreys Bay, just off the N2 Highway, 75 clicks southwest of Port Elizabeth there, has long played hard in the imaginations of surfers.
The long, not-so-heavy but challenging enough. righthand point has hauled in some of the greatest performances in surfing history: Tom Curren’s second-ever war there, as featured in Sonny Miller’s 1993 film Searching for Tom Curren, Filipe Toledo’s double-oop in 2018, Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Occy, Mikey February, Stephanie Gilmore, all of ‘em painting gorgeous timeless lines.
Jeffreys Bay has again come under the microscope after a black surfer claimed he was told to fuck off and called what is euphemistically referred to as the K-word, a wildly offensive racial slur that has deep roots in South Africa’s apartheid history.
Rasool Hendricks, forty-nine, said him and his pal were about to hit Supertubes back in March when, they allege, local guest house operator and J-Bay shredder Remi Petersen told ‘em to beat it and allegedly used the ol K-word.
“I struggled to understand why he wanted to keep me out of the waves,” Hendricks told the local press. “We are acquainted, he knows I surf in Jeffreys Bay all the time, and I was very surprised when he and some other surfers approached us and told us to leave. The matter escalated and an argument ensued. At one state, they tried to grab out surfboards. Then Remi (allegedly) called me a k**** and told me to fuck off and go back to the location. The whole thing was quite upsetting.”
Hendricks said he wrote a letter and thought about sending it to the Human Rights Commission. It then went up on a chat group where “other surfers of colour” were asked for their opinion.
And, here’s the twist.
“I thought the whole thing was behind us, but then I got a phone call that I needed to appear in court in Humansdorp,” says Hendricks. “When I arrived Remi was there with an attorney and an advocate and I heard he was applying for a protection order against me. He claims I threatened to slit the throats of white children and told him, ‘The night of the long knives is coming.’”
Back in 2013, photos appeared of a man, allegedly Rasool Hendricks, baptising an Australian surfer in the water.
On a different post about the same alleged baptism, one commenter wrote:
Regardless of whether the victim presses charges or not, I think it is our duty as a surf community to make it known to him that his behaviour is unacceptable and that he is unwelcome to share the water with us. By this I don’t mean lowering ourselves to his level of personal violence, but there are many ways to skin a cat, as the saying goes.
Furthermore, I’ve also heard from many friends within the surfing community, and have personally seen him being verbally abusive and disrespectful to everyone in the water, regardless of sex or age.
Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. Sheeeeesh.
So, anyway, Hendricks lawyers up, applies for a counter protection order and, not real sure why, but the World Surf League has sent their regional director Tasha Mentasti to monitor court proceedings.
“Once the matter has been finalised in court, we will make a decision on possible further steps for the good of the sport,” Mentasti told The Herald.
Further steps unspecified.
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I’ve seen this guy Rasool in the water many times. He is a total nightmare, thinks he owns the ocean, and threatens anyone who is within a 3 meter radius of him if he doesn’t know them. He actually must have a couple of screws loose. Seems mentally unstable and I do not believe a word he says. One of the top 5 worst guys I have encountered in the ocean, and I have been surfing for 40+ years. Karma will get him at some point….
Last year I surfed J-Bay Point with my teenie son and was having a good surf within a mutually respectful crowd. This blond long haired guy on a midlength dropped in on me down the line and I passed him, not thinking too much of it. On the paddle back out I grinned and said hi and no worries about his drop in …. The bastard then went off at me at 200% calling me every insult he had and didn’t stop screaming obscenities at me even after I’d paddled away. Said he was the main local there and I had no business surfing behind him as a visitor. I got some of the worst vibes I’ve ever had in the water from him! The guys watching commiserated with me and said not to mind – he just is like that. Turns out the unhappy local is a relocated Dutch surfer who built up a guest house in J-Bay (Dreamland / JBay Surf Retreats) and is apparently Dad to the famous CS level local Remi Peterson. I think his name was Thomas and I hope he’s not so angry anymore.
You were the dumb cunt that started with the fucking assumptions and then cry like a little fukin baby when I do the same. What a stupid little bitch.
You still can’t explain why you think it’s the world Bank should have invested in Mugabe.
Why didn’t China step in? They were the ones that put him in power.
Blaming the failures of Communism on the west. Poor little victims.
Anyone who looks towards Mugabe as anything other than a failed murderous criminal dictator is delusional.
Yeah well you got fukall idea of what you’re talking about with respect to the southern African liberation struggle.
Also fukwit, you misquoted me. A weak, predictable part of chicom propaganda. If you can’t tell the difference between what I called pathetic and the liberation struggle then you are even more fukin stupid than I thought. Your retarded framing of the situation with zero nuance shows your ignorance on the matter.
listen fukwit, this started as a friendly conversation until you called me fukin stupid. So fuck off cumrade.
You started by calling me stupid so fuck you you little bitch.
You tell me I haven’t read anything about the struggle. You don’t know shit about it you fucking retard. I lived it. I was jailed by the apartheid regime for participation in the struggle. I’ve lost friends across the racial spectrum on both sides of it. You’ve read some fucking books written by a bunch of commie cunts pushing Xi’s propaganda and think you know something? Fuck of little boy, go live in China and quit suckeling on the tit of capitalism.
Listen you moronic little bitch. First of all around here we don’t go back and edit our statements to make other people look bad. Only little coward bitches do this and you did it. If you think my answer was elaborate propaganda you are a fucking simpleton without the ability to reason. Here you are crying pinko commie slogans, berating capitalism on the internet that was built by capitalism.
you’re too fukinstupid to realize that when you steal shit from a bank it’s not going to finance any further endeavors by you. Why couldn’t your bitch ass little communist countries come in and help Zimbabwe? Always the f****** victim. As if communist revolutionaries somehow are owed it by the capitalist Banks to support them. Fukin zero self-awareness. Just like you.
You talk about my personal inadequacies without knowing me because you’re a dumb cunt.
editing out you calling me stupid makes you look like a little bitch, which you are. Part of the me me me generation. You don’t know s hit about liberation politics in southern Africa. Casually commenting on a conflict that tore to pieces a whole subcontinent. You are a dimwitted little bitch and will never be anything other than that.
seriously go fuk yourself cumrade.
Next time you address me why don’t you remove Mugabe’s dick from your throat? While you were simultaneously copy pasting your commie revisionist propaganda comeback from Baidu and giving Xi a hand job you missed the fact that you proved my point ,ya dumb Fuck.
Mugabe fucked around and found out.
China put Mugabe in power, sow hy didn’t they step in and help with support? I’ll tell you why. They weren’t interested in helping Mugabe, they were only interested in defeating the West. The knew Mugabe was nothing More than a propped up Petty despot kept power to be a thorn in the West’y side.
how fukin stupid do you have to be to think that when you nationalize industries and land that the same institutions that financially backed those endeavors will continue to support you. Weak excuse comrade. You’re commie system backing two bit despots is shit. That is why Mugabe failed.
your comeback came with all the cock sure entitled
stupidity of someone who has zero real life experience with the situation and no skin in the game.
it’s hilarious watching some commie socialist fukwit go on and on about how the shit the Western capitalism is while doing the little whiny b**** number on the internet using a device that is the product of Western capitalism.
go fuk yrself comrade. This blaming the failure of Chi com ambitions on the West instead of realizing the failure was because it’s own pathetic failure to produce results.
Yeah because nationalization went so well in Zimbabwe. Nothing but destroyed industry and failed ag endeavours.
The ANC has and does regularly make grave mistakes, but not nationalizing isn’t one of them.
I’m glad WSL are stepping in to add their 2 cents to race wash this situation. We would be so fucked without them.
PS. jbay locals are Kunts!
Rasool and some of his friends threatened me with a gun at local Cape Town break, screaming at me I was Racist. I pointed out to him that my wife and children were the same race as him. There are many surfers in Cape Town that have had “Rusty Tool” act like he owns all beaches in South Africa, He is always the instigator with aggression and confrontation.
100% he is awful to surf with, threatening surfers all the time
For the first 12 years of my life I thought my first name was Fuckin’ and my surname was Haole.
can I get a badge?
I feel you. I thought the kid next door was Goddammit Carl.
our capitalist civilization!
This is horrible. Some psychopath yelling K….. elly.
Kelly
You Kelly
Kelly
Kelly.
I went to J-bay last year and had some great waves and great times with local whites and blacks. I would like to see a photo of this remi guy as I was confronted in the water after I had caught 3 waves in 4 hrs , but was surfing further up the point and out to sea than them .
A couple of white so called locals who decided because I had a longer board and caught a couple of pretty good waves…….3 of em tried to threaten me , told me to go down the point ….to which I just kept smiling, said nothing until a guy said,”they will beat you up,” my reply was pretty simple ,”I laughed and went well “see you the beach!”
There is an underlying racism in SA/J-bay….but some of the real surfers there like Hugh Thompson/Mikey Meyer/Ginnsy….just said ” they are frustrated old men trying to ride short boards…..and even hassle some of the older guys for having longer bds.
since I was 19 I wanted to go to J-Bay…been there done it…..would not go there again because of the racist element…even though only small number….i got it in the super markets etc……
to call someone a Kafa is illegal and hurtful….I have been pulled up before for being racist calling a couple of aggro white South African…white Kafas…….fuck they hated it!
will be interested to see the outcome!
A while back my dad went to Telos/Indo. My dad went with some of his friends and they were probably 55-65 years old. There was also a group of 5-6 South Africans, all very good surfers, either at the resort or at a neighboring place that had the same owner. The resorts only had two boats or something to get people to other spots.
During the 2-3 day period when the waves were best the South Africans demanded that all the boats be exclusively for their own use and threw temper tantrums when told no.
This song is hilarious. What a link
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yep, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed……insulting ……I think it’s way worse than nigga…..as if memory serves me right……a Kaffa is lower than cockroach , not people ….and so low they couldn’t have a God??
we’re over the race card, B. pass it on~
yeah Ok I just realized what a racist cunt I am!!!
Not as bad as the N-word.
Singapore supermarkets openly sell “Kaffir Limes” and no one complains or takes offence.
They are not selling anything labelled “Nigger Apples” or such –
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ah it’s all relative….Nigger has meaning of a low class person, Kaffir dehumanizes…..not even human…….I have blackfella elder friends and we call each other nigger all the time…..as we exist in the gutter!
Funny that you point out Mo’s spelling errors, yet fail to do any research on a botanical term, implying a racist origin. Kaffir limes are named after an ethnic group in Sri Lanka. I grow them, incidentally, along with many other varieties of tropical fruits.
I believe it originates from the Arabic term Kafir for a non believer in Islam. Later became a term for slave. Truly abhorrent.
Sorry you had to deal with that shit.
I was watching the Balito QS event a few years back and they’d cut to a shot of the general beach scene. In the centre of the crowded beach was a couple of kids playing that beach paddle-ball / badminton game. I’d seen a black guy walking the beach on a couple of earlier shots, maybe selling something, or doing clean-up, not sure. But he’s walking past the kids, then the girl, cute as a button, turns at him and whacks the ball hard at him. He cowers, almost falls over, then scampers away. The kids continue playing.
I thought cunt was spelt with a C?
Playing victim, making bitch legal moves. Are you sure this isn’t Palos Verde?…. more as the story bleeds vaginally…. with chunks….
‘Kailyard’ ? ‘Kaleidoscope’ ? ‘Katamorphism’?
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‘Kakistocracy’?
‘Kindergartner’?
‘Keritinization’?
keta…
Ah the ” young” syndrome , bully gets bullied and crys wolf.
What a predictable mess.