Racism issue perverted for politics

18 February 2016 - 02:26 By M Falck, by e-mail

Listening to the State of the Nation address, it grieved me to hear Julius Malema's blatantly racist remarks with no "out of order" from the speaker. He is quick to call for inquiries into remarks made by public figures on social media. But when Malema spews racial hatred and encourages it among his followers there is silence.This goes to show how some have perverted the racism issue for political reasons. Malema seems to be a good pupil of President Robert Mugabe, who has single-handedly dumped his people into poverty and hunger, and now begs the nations he berates as colonialists for money to feed the people of Zimbabwe.Highveld Steel today dismissed its entire workforce, once more adding numbers to the unemployed.For this we can thank the ANC government and President Jacob Zuma, who imports cheap steel from China at the expense of his own people.Deaths at the hands of whites during the apartheid era are dragged up time and again, but brutal farm murders don't even get a mention. ..

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