Don’t shun the ‘clever blacks’

THE ANC and the EFF despise people who can use their brains to think and label them as “clever blacks/ puppets” because it is precisely the questioning, forward-looking South African who shuns and is embarrassed by ignorance.

Those at home will know what it’s like to listen to mumbling, incoherent ministers like Bheki Cele, Lindiwe Sisulu, Gwede Mantashe, Lindiwe Zulu, and so on, and to wonder how it is that these people are paid millions while many sit at home without a job.

It is the so-called “clever black/ puppet” who shuns the opportunity to lick the boots of politicians and eat the scraps that fall from their table because they want to make it on their own merit.

We want to create an open opportunity society that carries the attitude that “you can do it”. That education and hard work, not political connections, can take you far. And that ours is not a closed cabal of cadres but an open and expansive world filled with opportunities based on freedom and fairness.

THULANI DASA | Khayelitsha