Blacks love their white people, even if they are racist. Many of them are. We blacks have even coined a term of endearment for them: abelungu bethu, which simply means our superior white people. You see, when you are black and have the confidence and courage to look a white person in the eye, you […]
Sandile Memela
Sandile Memela is a journalist, writer, cultural critic, columnist and civil servant. He lives in Midrand.
Posted inMedia, News/Politics
Yes, Mr President! The media are out of touch with the society in which they exist!
Perhaps South Africa is the only democracy on the continent and the whole world that allows an oppositional press, especially print, to operate in a way that undermines the goals and gains of almost 400 years of liberation struggle. This black government (sic) is the only one that I know in contemporary history that allows […]
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We have no black thought leaders
One thing that I find pathetic is the whole notion of a black thought leader. Such a thing does not exist. It’s rather striking that in the new South Africa you don’t find anyone making a big deal about “white economic domination” or a “white thought leader”, for instance. Not that this particular breed does […]
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The trial of John Tengo Jabavu for (mis)representing African opinion
Some friends asked me to attend a day-long talk shop by some of the country’s to opinion-leaders at some white university now the other day. I did not have to think hard before I answered with a resounding: “I am not particularly interested!” They were quiet for a minute before they answered: “This is so […]
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The raging silence on black and white racists
I have been asked to write nothing but my truth, as I know it, to promote the right to freedom of expression. I guess I have been invited by destiny and history to break the silence. You see, since 1994, far too many have chosen silence. The silence was not imposed by the Madiba magic. […]