Khanyi defends views on Dove ad

KHANYI Mbau has stood firm and unapologetic on her views‚ which defended Dove’s controversial advertising campaign that sparked widespread outrage on social media on Monday.

Mbau said black people needed to address the inferiority complex and psychological issues they have.

Dove SA infuriated thousands of people after a picture from its advertising showing a black woman morphing into a white woman went viral.

Mbau received a backlash on social media for telling people to chill‚ after she watched the advert‚ which shows a black woman morphing into a white‚ who then changes into an Indian woman.

“I think as blacks we have deep-seated issues and we suffer from an inferiority complex and have psychological issues we honestly need to deal with.

“A nation that has freedom but no education on how to live freely with it . . . not everything is an attack‚” she said.

She outlined her issue with South Africans being too sensitive where race issues are concerned.

“South Africans need to let the race thing rest now‚ we have become too sensitive about everything; the slightest thing we think it’s an attack on the black man‚” she said.

Dove SA has since issued an apology‚ admitting that the campaign had missed the mark.