Mampara of the week: Vytjie Mentor

18 June 2017 - 00:00 By Hogarth

She may be a brave crusader against corruption, but her craving for attention sometimes gets the better of her. There are many things she could have laid at Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba's door.
But making false claims about his nationality, especially in a country where the darker you are, the more likely you are to be attacked as a foreigner, is irresponsible and xenophobic.
She must hang her head in shame, especially for saying Gigaba's surname is really Gigamba - which closely resembles one of the old offensive references to foreign Africans as grigambas...

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