South Africa’s first people marginalised by government

I REFER to the article by D R Galloway , which concerns a Mr Nigel Wakeford and which was printed in the April 25 Weekend Post under the heading: “Dark Days Thanks to Colonialism and Eskom”.

I do not wish to comment as to the Bible – related views expressed regularly in your columns by Mr Nigel Wakeford – except to mention that he is clearly a bible-fundamentalist who takes every word in the Bible to be literally true and ignores archeological evidence which, to a true Bible scholar and Christian, would signify the mighty power of God, as being the architect and creator of the universe and the subsequent development of mankind from 13 billion years ago.

With regard to Mr Galloway and his numerous “pain-filled” and supercilious letters to the media, I would suggest to him that he should meet with Mr Wakeford and attempt to settle their differences instead of using the media to air their differences.

I would also suggest to Mr Galloway, in his capacity as a self-proclaimed apologist for the present ANC–led government, that he reflects publicly on their performance and enlightens the readers as to the high rate of crime prevailing, the prevalence of nepo- tism in government, the high incidence of hijackings, the lack of security administered in public places, the high incidence of state corruption and the lack of properly trained maintenance personnel at Eskom. The list (none of which is due to colonialism) continues without corrective measures being taken.

Furthermore Mr Galloway, would you also respond as to why the Khoisan and San peoples continue to be marginalised by the present government, nothwithstanding that their forebears were the first settlers in South Africa, some 2 000 years ago.

E A Sharp, Beverley Grove