Event racialises crime
I hereby invite any organisation who seeks to address all the above to invite me to participate in the life of the organisation.
EDITOR – To ensure there are no misguided perceptions of my personal view, I do state for the record that I will support any form of campaign against corruption, murder, rape, drug and alcohol abuse and abuse against women and children.
In fact, I hereby invite any organisation who seeks to address all the above to invite me to participate in the life of the organisation.
It came to my attention that there are series of marches to take place across the country, and in fact across the world, on 10 October. To avoid promoting an extremist view, let me get to the gist of my concern surrounding this unprecedented event.
Their website speaks of “oppression of and violence against white South Africans”. They then highlight corrupt governance, racist black economic empowerment and affirmative action policies, destruction of our infrastructure, filthy government hospitals, our pathetic educational system, dirty dams and rivers and so on.
To any layman, the political agenda behind this far-fetched campaign should be as clear as daylight – this Red October campaign misleads the people of South Africa to distort the crime stats to say that only whites are victims of crime.
Allow me to run the risk of asking the organisers if they did an in-depth analysis of crime/murder in rural areas, townships and previous disadvantaged communities.
I will again run the risk and answer for them – no they did not, because if they did, they would have seen crime/murder far exceeds the number of victims they claim as the ‘inhumane slaughter’ of white people in South Africa.
A warning to you, don’t racialise crime as you might run the risk of another racial uprising.
Murder, crime, corruption affects everybody as it has no racial preference.
Rather reveal yourself in crime fighting efforts than by promoting racial division. We come from an emotional history, and what South Africa needs now is for people to rise above themselves and build towards a better future for all South Africans, black and white.
Lastly, the words of George Orwell resonates loudly as I imagine you might not want to accept reality: “The further a society drifts from the truth the more they will hate those who speak it”.
Remove the racial element in your campaign and invite all, black and white, to show solidarity.
Amanzimtoti
