SA is for minorities too

I write this letter with deep regret as I am questioning leadership qualities based on race. However, the recent attacks on minority groups in our country by black leaders border on recklessness.

One of the things that occurred in other African countries before they went on a downward trajectory was the targeting of minorities. These minority groups included whites, coloureds and Indians, who are equally part of the African continent.

What has prompted me to write is firstly Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama’s attack on a white journalist, secondly Julius Malema’s rhetoric about Indians in KwaZulu-Natal and thirdly a piece by ANC Western Cape spokesman Yonela Diko about coloured people’s attitude towards the party in that province.

Lastly, a Sunday newspaper ran a story about the allegedly “bossy” white people in the Cyril Ramaphosa campaign.

If one analyses these stories it is not impossible to suggest there is a co-ordinated campaign to isolate and attack minority groups in our country so they get frustrated and leave.

We need to remind our black leaders that SA belongs to all who live in it.

It is the right of minority groups to freely participate in our country’s political discourse, even if that means being critical of black leaders. Black people do not have a monopoly on political wisdom.

Lazola Vabaza Pretoria