RECONCILIATION
ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE: Colonialism tweet adds to fires Maimane has to put out
It is time the DA admitted it has a crisis of messaging on race and does something about it
One of the fundamental issues that created a base for the building of a new SA is the determination to bury racism and colonialism to build a new nation. It is for this reason that former president Nelson Mandela spent most of his first term in office preaching reconciliation between SA’s diverse people. It was a deliberate act aimed at dealing with a matter that he knew if not handled properly would undermine the foundation of the new nation. Mandela succeeded. Despite years of colonialism and apartheid, with all its ugliness and devastating effects on the majority of SA’s people, there was no outright civil war as predicted by the naysayers. Yet such reconciliation took place in a manner that left out many of those who still suffered the fundamental consequences of the past in abject poverty. This is what leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when those who were the beneficiaries of the majority’s magnanimity trivialise issues of race and now colonialism.It is time the DA admitted th...
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