RACISM ROCKS SUBURBIA
‘I don’t feed houtkoppe’
YOUNG woman who asked for work on the “I Love Parkhurst” group Facebook page because her mother needed food instead found herself described as a “black snake” and a “houtkop”.
Amanda Durand Michau, who claims she lives in Paris, France, and runs a home industry, responded that the young woman must call a farmer.
In Afrikaans, she wrote: “Black snake begs for food on Facebook and then I tell her she must phone a farmer!”
After a barrage of criticism from members of the group, she responded: “Now I’m famous because I said I don’t feed houtkoppe.”
She later wrote: “Kill a farmer, go hungry. And that’s that.”
The administrator of the group deleted all her comments, but Michau took to her page, writing in Afrikaans: “They want to eat but they make farmers dead. Wtf now they are begging online nogal. I won’t feed them.”
Parkhurst group member Dianne Bayley reported her to Facebook, telling her: “What you have done is considered hate speech, and is unconsti-
Atutional.
“I’d get a lawyer if I were you. Penny Sparrow also thought she could get away with disgusting racism.”
Another user, Alison Sutcliffe, wrote: “What an atrocious excuse for a human. Apartheid is over, Ouma. You need to wake up.”
In a post, Facebook user Sammy Parrish described Michau as a “revolting, hateful human!” But Michau termed the response from the “kugels of Parkhurst” the “best soapie, which I in years couldn’t write”.
She insisted she could write what she wanted on her own Facebook page.
“I am not hiding! I see and read all the comments. I have a right just like any other in this country and I’ll be dammed if you take it from me! My voice gave you freedom! I can take it back! My comments are now on Twitter, the radio and f*** knows what else. I won’t withdraw my comments. Kill a farmer, go hungry!”
She later wrote that there were 76 notifications on her timeline.“I got enough k*k today, I’m going to lie down, otherwise there’s a hit on my life.” ---- Sheree Bega