Farmers bust rainbow dream myth

THE Black Monday march by mostly white farmers was a clear sign that the dream for a rainbow nation is a myth.

After 23 years into our democratic dispensation, we still have people who have the guts to wave an old apartheid flag in public with nothing being done about it.

As a country, we have taken 10 steps forward and 20 backwards when it comes to race relations. For this reason, we are going to find it difficult to deal with this demon.

Why did they call the day a Black Monday in the first place?

Pupils had just started exams and organisers of the march seemed not to care about the consequences of their actions. Why organise the march in the middle of exams if they cared about the future of this country?

We all agree that killing of white farmers shouldn’t be condoned, but at the same time they should think about the future generation.

We still have a long way to go if we allow certain individuals to block major roads without any consequences.

Over the past few months, many people were murdered in this country but the same people kept quiet and only God knows why.

We can only guess that it was because they were black people killing one of their own.

For us to build a truly united and non-racial society, we must not take sides when it comes to these killings. Braamfontein