After surviving the brutality of apartheid and colonialism, no one should dare ask Africans to apologise for demanding justice and equal rights, writes Modidima Mannya
I also remembered that my forebears had to call a white person a baas or missus. Not that it has stopped. It is a matter of public record that Africans have been on the receiving end of the brutality of colonialism and apartheid.It is inherent in Africans to forgive. We dare not be asked to apologise for this, either.
The suggestion that national reconciliation was former president Nelson Mandela’s idea is a distortion of history and is being abused to blackmail Africans.Mandela, who is today used as a tool to blackmail us, is the same one who, in 1949, agitated for a radical programme of action and the initiation of the armed struggle.His own forebears had failed to persuade the white people to see us as human beings and to reconcile with us. They were maimed and brutalised for asking to be treated as human.
It seems that we are expected to remain mentally colonised and not recognise that we are still oppressed. The interpretation of national reconciliation, which suggests that the ANC called on Africans to shut up in the face of ongoing injustice and oppression, is nonsensical. Why on earth would our liberation movements pursue the struggle at such great costs just to protect white minority interests?
Our Constitution states that government must take measures – legislative and otherwise – to promote, protect and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights. Our fellow citizens have perfected the art of moaning about what Africans should not demand of the democratic government.
'Stolen land'? What nonsense are you publishing ? No land currently owned in South Africa has been stolen. You need to check yourselves and you columnists.
What has Africa contributed? The 'land' of the western cape was never inhabited by blacks. Why do you lie about history? To hide that you never owned the land? That the wine comes from western knowledge?
Indeed white have not sacrificed anything for reconciliation, not even the K word!
This is so tedious...but hey whateva floats your boat
This 💩again..
I trust you have laid a charge of theft at the SAPS?
She's a dazzling beauty you can protect even when you know she's wrong. BUT not in this important matter in which by extension innocent young man and boys must be viciously held responsible for oppressive patriarchy of centuries in equal combat and spat.
This article will surely help to lift the spirits of Modidima Mannya (and ZindziMandela )
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Must say I swallow hard on the 'forgiving' part, true forgiveness does not fit in at all with this article theme, much rather the opposite.
You use the term 'whites' in general - Surely kimheller3 is ok.... she is white then there is Beyers Naude... and a few others