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A recent article written by Setumo Stone, a social commentator and youth activist, points out that the white minority in South Africa are ungrateful. That these white minorities still lead the lives of elites, as if to say that they still have and hold all functions of what is South Africa.
One can only assume then that Apartheid in South Africa has not yet ended. That there are certain categories of the population that still holds all the power and abuses their power to further their own agenda. The truth be told he is both right and wrong. Apartheid has not yet ended, and there are masses still living in poverty, because they are denied access to the knowledge that build South Africa’s infrastructure. There are groups in South African society still perceived as a threat to building a multiracial society. They are legally removed from participating in the workforce, for the sake of racial capital diversification. Yet the wealth of knowledge is forsaken for a more incompetent run democracy, with more of a focus on the equality, when it comes to being rich. The author will try and make us believe that in the rainbow nation all whites are leprechauns, holding on to the proverbial pot of gold, while the rest of the nation is starving to death. This all happening under the very nose and rule of the African National Congress.
Are all white to be grateful for the fact that we are still perceived as a threat to South Africa’s democracy? That we should be grateful that we are left breathing after the world was sold the ANC’s Freedom Charter: “We the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,...”
The world will be grateful to know the fact that the ANC has not lived up to this promise. That South Africa’s democracy was built on lies and the work of self serving charlatans. That the rhetoric of people like Julius Malema, serves only to further the hatred of those who oppose the status quo, those who realise that we are heading towards a society build on racial hatred.
That the ANC will serve itself, before it serves its own people. That the ruling party is bent on dividing the masses instead of a joint cause of building one nation, that serves the intrest of all South Africans. That the majority of people in South Africa still thinks that the machine gun, is the only way to the future.
We are indeed ungrateful to the fact that the ANC are still trying to deceive the majority to their self enriching, self serving politics. Making the whites in your country the enemy of the people, while they corrupt the distribution of our resources. That your politics are not of nation building, but of building the future of only those who serve a single party policy, a single rule of the ANC. The path of failure that all communist societies take. Soon South Africa will inherit an ungrateful nation of a single politics mentality.
From a personal point of view Mr Stone, I am not ungrateful. I am grateful for the fact that I live in a society that respect the order of law. The simple fact that if I coexist with other human beings in peace, those that act in an anti social manner will be punished.
That there are structures placed in society that will protect democracy and equality for all. I am grateful that I left people like you behind in South Africa with your racial hate mongering, for the sake of a Renaissance, a word that set my forefathers free, and by which you try and exclude me from my society. Most of all I am grateful that I am free of such a racist mentality as yours, and I no longer have to live in the past. That is the reason why most of us is leaving South Africa, because of people like yourself.
As for you Sir, you are an ungrateful individual to insult the life work of a noble man like Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu. A man who dedicated his life to the pursuit of racial harmony, and you choose to insult him. Shame on you and your kind. You are not worthy of his dream, neither to a future of racial harmony in South Africa.