Racism will consume South Africa unless something is done soon, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said in the National Assembly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“Currently the sparks of racism are being thrown into dry grass everywhere,” Mulder said in reply to President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address.<\/p>\n
Unlike other countries which were dealing with conflict over one issue, such as religion, South Africa was a melting pot of reasons for people to turn on each other.<\/p>\n
People were making sweeping statements that “all white people are racist” or “all black people are criminals”.<\/p>\n
The African National Congress had declared that the white minority in South Africa had rejected nation building.<\/p>\n
People blamed the country’s problems on the arrival of Dutch administrator Jan van Riebeeck, continued Mulder.<\/p>\n
“But that is a racist oversimplication of our complicated history,” he said.<\/p>\n
“History is just not that simple.\u00a0Racism from the side of white people or black people carries the germ that could destroy South Africa.<\/p>\n
“Leaders must set the example because they determine the tone of such debates. Racism is a very serious matter that must be dealt with.”<\/p>\n
Two Stellenbosch University students were wrongly accused of racism for painting themselves black for a party when they were actually covered in purple paint and glitter for a space-themed party, he said.<\/p>\n
But when a University of Cape Town student wore a T-shirt that said “kill all whites”, it was considered debate.<\/p>\n
“We’ve totally lost the plot,” he said.<\/p>\n
When Mulder read the T-shirt’s handwritten slogan of “kill all whites”, some MPs shouted “Yes! Yes!”<\/p>\n
Fellow FF Plus MP Pieter Groenewald complained to Speaker Baleka Mbete about this and demanded that those who shouted it, own up and withdraw the remark.<\/p>\n
“Because it’s unacceptable that I sit in this Parliament and I must hear that all whites must be killed.”<\/p>\n
Nobody took Mbete up on her offer to withdraw.<\/p>\n
Mulder said all political groups and business leaders should get together to get through the crisis.<\/p>\n
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