BOTH the editor’s column (Unembargoed) and his feature (Prejudice harms in all its guises) of January 18 refer.I am reminded by the closing remarks to the multiparty negotiation process at Kempton Park on November 17 1993 by the late great chief justice Ismail Mahomed.He began by stating that "we shall build a new SA, emancipated from the brutality of institutionalised racism". However, he added that he had been aggrieved only once during the deliberations in Kempton Park, when he heard the apprehension of an Afrikaans delegate that the implementation of the new Constitution "might lead to the oppression of the Afrikaans people".Justice Mahomed was "pained" to hear that. "I have no doubt that it is a fear which is genuinely felt by him, but I would urge him and my Afrikaans-speaking brothers and sisters and the white community generally not to be afraid of the future."He went on to say: "Do not underestimate the power of an independent judiciary, in the Supreme Court and the Constit...
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