Whites to blame for race issues: bishop

02 September 2016 - 09:04
By SIPHO MABENA

White people are to blame for the country's knotty race relations and hampering social cohesion. So said Catholic Bishop William Slattery at a meeting of religious leaders in Pretoria yesterday.He said white people "escaped" institutions once they were opened to all races.He used as an example four Catholic schools in the Pretoria city centre that had only white pupils in the 1960s but now had hardly a single white pupil.

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