2016 was a bumper year for racist rants in SA, and it is not over yet
Vanessa Hartley, who likened Africans to "stupid animals" converging on a coastal town, is not alone when it comes to racially offensive views that have provoked a public backlash. Hartley‚ a sales manager at a security and IT company in Cape Town‚ has joined the ranks of politicians‚ professionals‚ a lodge owner‚ retired estate agent and High Court judge whose words returned to haunt them. Here are seven people who’ve been hauled over the coals for race-related incidents in the past year or so: Dianne Kohler Barnard: Her parliamentary membership was terminated at the end of October 2015 after she shared a Facebook post from journalist Paul Kirk‚ in which he praised former apartheid president PW Botha. The post read: "Please come back PW Botha — you were far more honest than any of these [ANC] rogues‚ and you provided a far better service to the public." Her expulsion was later lifted after an appeal process‚ on the condition that she was not found guilty of any transgressions durin...
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