Zille’s tweet shows her closet-thinking

HUMAN Rights Day is a time for serious introspection.

Helen Zille’s latest tweet is, sadly, symptomatic of the kind of closetthinking of too many white folk living in South Africa today, most of whom were simply, and through no fault of their own, born into “white privilege”.

Apart from the small number of white anti-apartheid activists and the valiant efforts of the Helen Suzmans and others, the majority of both colonial and apartheid-era white folk chose the “expedient path” of “not rocking the political boat” – much like the silent majority of “decent” Germans living in Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

That the Third Reich of Nazi Germany had some “positive credentials” such as, for example, impressive infrastructural projects like the German autobahns (highways) is neither a redeeming nor justifying factor when examining Nazism in history.

A Germany without the advent of Hitler and Nazism would have resulted in a vastly different world today and one without the absurd notions of “racial supremacy”.

A world without imperialism and colonialism would also have resulted in there being little, if any, racism in the world today.

The Helen Zilles should rather focus on building inter-racial and inter-cultural bridges. GUY MACLEOD Plumstead