Whites were repeatedly accused of having ‘looted’ and ‘stolen’ the land (Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, December 2017), of having ‘destroyed the asset base of the African people’ and thereby caused ‘the impoverishment of the black nation’ (Cyril Ramaphosa, November 2017), of having engaged in ‘the ruthless plunder of land and livestock’ (Ace Magashule, September 2018) and of having committed ‘a full-blow. [...] Gabriel Crouse, an associate at the IRR, along with James Myburgh and Rian Malan, have written further on the problems with the sentence and the investigation, and serious questions must be asked about how and why the two men were convicted.6 In December 2018 the HRC published its Trends Analysis Report on the various complaints referred to it in 2016/17. [...] Th e top priority for the government Respondents in the 2018 survey were asked to choose, from a list of possible answers supplied to them, ‘which one of the following issues should be the top priority for the government’. [...] Do black people see whites as ‘second-class’ citizens? Some of the comments made by the ANC and the EFF during the past year to buttress their demands for an EWC amendment to the Constitution may have encouraged black South Africans to turn the tables on whites and relegate them to the status of second-class citizens. [...] The propor- tions of black respondents agreeing that the diff erent races need each other for progress stood at 85% in 2015 and 84% in 2016, which is much the same as the 86% recorded in 2018.
- Pages
- 14
- Published in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
