Ek kan nie glo wat ek hier lees nie!!! Ek haal n gedeelte aan uit die belaglike skrywe van Marelise van der Merwe, wat op die Daily Maverick webwerf verskyn... Gaan lees gerus die hele sotllike skrywe daar... Die juffrou meen ons kan maar te bly wees dat swart mense ons nie in die kop skiet vir ons rassistiese kommentaar nie... en dat ek en Steve n leuen vertel oor die moordkoers op boere! Volgens haar is boere die mees onwaarskynlike slagoffers!!!! Wag, dag ek gaan werk en kalm raak... Sx ************************************************************ Sure, you can blame the ANC for the lack of change all you want, but here’s a thought for you: you are damn lucky that land you’re sitting on wasn’t taken from you by force, the way it was taken from people of colour before you. You are damn lucky that that brown person next to you smiled at you this morning, waved at you, spoke to you. You are damn lucky that an angry black person hasn’t just walked up to you and shot you in the head because they’ve had to read one more ignorant, racist comment on News24 and it just made them snap and do something crazy. Because you know what? If the shoe were on the other foot, and it were me, I might have gone out there with my AK-47. There is violence in South Africa, yes, but there is not revolution (and contrary to the beliefs of Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr, white farmers are in fact the least likely to be murdered). The overwhelming majority of people in this country are good, peaceful people. And that should be enough to amaze you. You can say a prayer of thanks every day for the forgiveness in the hearts of the people in this country, as Beeld’s Virginia Keppler pointed out so incisively in her letter to Steve Hofmeyr. The misdemeanours of government aside, it’s a damn privilege to live in the (relative) peace that we do, and you should thank those who forgive you for the grace they have given you. Think of it this way: if you were in the schoolyard and someone was bullying you, and a teacher came and said it’s now against the rules to bully, and the bullying stopped, would you suddenly think that ex-bully was a nice person? Or would you be wary, thinking hey – they’re still a bully, but for the law? White South Africa, unless you were actually in the struggle, it’s time to realise you did squat. Most of us sat on our bums getting manna from heaven for decades and then, in 1994, when the party was supposedly over, we magically found out it wasn’t actually over – we somehow still had all the money and jobs, except we got the moral high ground as the great liberators as well. We should be on our effing knees saying sorry. Not saying sorry – doing sorry. Making it better. Doing volunteer work. Raising a kid who needs a home. Putting someone through school and university who doesn’t have the funds for it because we benefited (are still benefiting) from the system that made their parents earn minimum wage. Not spending energy on making sure the last Apartheid liberator gets his Boulevard. Surely the Nobel Prize was enough. It’s not an accident that the EFF is gaining ground like wildfire. It’s not just that Julius Malema gives a soundbite a minute. The country is ready for change. Our beloved Madiba is dead. The country is restless. The conciliatory mood is over. South Africa wants a new start, and it seems that certain white South Africans are still sleeping. Still entitled. Still thinking they deserve their share – of the spoils and the glory – and more. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-01-16-op-ed/#.VLybWlpQoTM
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:06:13 +0000