Afrikaner talks not a bad thing

WHAT’S all the brouhaha about President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the Broederbond (“Ramaphosa reaches out to, warns Afrikaners”, The Star, June 8)?

Nelson Mandela met them. So did Thabo Mbeki. It’s about nation-building. Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa. What I’m interpreting from the broadside that advocate Dali Mpofu et al have unleashed, is that he shouldn’t have. I sense their reasons are as problematic as they are racist.

Yes, the Afrikaner Broederbond played a key role in enforcing the execution of the vilest forms of theft and violations of the rights of black South Africans. I saw an opportunity to tell them that, and that land redistribution would go ahead and their presence is to work with the government to achieve social justice.

The vituperative comments I’ve been privy to are a sad manifestation of revenge and doing the same thing that was done to us during apartheid.

That is not what our constitution prescribed. South Africa belongs to all of us who live in it. Newlands West, Durban