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Alistair Sparks

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White people must stand up against white racism

Siya Mnyanda by Siya Mnyanda 6 January 201612 January 2016

When I was in high school, my headmaster used to say that evil triumphs when good people do nothing. It was not till I matriculated and grew older that I could fully comprehend and appreciate the gravity of his words. Racism, of any nature, defeats the ends of the reconciliation project we’ve been working towards […]

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Verwoerdgate: A different take on Alistair’s faux pas

David Saks by David Saks 13 May 2015

Alistair Sparks undoubtedly put his foot in it by referring, in the context of praising Helen Zille, to Hendrik Verwoerd as a “smart” politician. Whether he likes it or not, lumping the two together, as well as including him in a list of otherwise progressively inclined white parliamentarians from the apartheid era, to some degree […]

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