Ill-considered tweet may be just that, so how about a little forgiveness?

JAMES Adams wrote: “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behoves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”

Apropos the Helen Zille nuclear disaster when she uttered the the most catastrophic and damaging words to the effect “that not all aspects of colonialism were bad”, can we honestly declare that there is no element of truth in the statement?

Can we honestly say there was not an iota of good in colonialism? Can we say that this

dark period was not a fact of history? Sadly for Zille, she omitted to juxtapose with her poorly-judged statement the horror, the criminality, the ghoulishly ugly, the very horrendously abominable actions of worldwide colonialism that reduced humanity to slavery of the body as well as the mind.

This evil has left nearpermanent damage so that the remnants of its legacy persist even today.

This is a truth that simply cannot be denied.

Allow me to shift to the focal point of this letter – let us hold hands, let’s forgive and build a peaceful nation that is culturally rich, even in diversity.

May the God of our troubled universe guide us to realise this goal. R MUNISAMY Isipingo Hills