Letter: Insulting comments

Thandi Ngcobo of Palm Lakes writes: Jarette Pelzer’s Move One Million’s stated aim to fight corruption would have really been commendable and noble were it not for some of his comments which I find to be as presumptuous, insulting and alienating as the TRESmmé advert (“Together against Corruption,” Courier, September 11).

One wonders, for example, why the organisation lists issues such as poor governance and farm murders as part of its fight against corruption that, although evil and criminal in themselves, have nothing to do with corruption.

In addition, why is the organisation’s fight confined to farm murders and does not embrace all murders in principle?

Part of the organisation’s presumptuous nature is in its presumed power to forbid finger pointing by others whilst giving itself power to do so rather covertly. How very patronizing!

It also includes a comment by one of its members in its website that ‘we want to make South Africa great again’.

The question is who ‘we’ are, because South Africa was never great for all of us following the introduction of the very dehumanising evils associated with colonisation and apartheid. How very insensitive!

We do indeed need to fight corruption together if the country is to be free of it. Such a fight would perhaps begin with an education about the evils associated with it such as high poverty, crime and ill-health rates and not by being all over the shore.

It would also be informed by an acknowledgement that crime, including corruption, is not genetically embedded.

A rumour that the purchasing of part of the land belonging to one of the local estates actually involved corruption goes a long way in illustrating the universality.

If this rumour is indeed true, it calls on anyone who sincerely wants all races to join hands in fighting whatever evil needs to desist from insulting them.

A united fight should indeed be more powerful than a fragmented one.