Over the past several months there has been a striking resurgence of racial propaganda in South Africa, directed against the countrys white minority. This follows in the slipstream of the African National Congress governments renewed legislative efforts to solve the race question in South Africa by inter alia progressively limiting whites in all private and public sector institutions to their percentage of the total population; the efforts to gradually Africanise small business through the amended B-BBEE codes; and the vociferous calls from the Economic Freedom Fighters, and elements within the ANC, for land owned by whites to be expropriated without compensation for the benefit of the population as a whole. It also occurs in a context wherein the ANCs past efforts to deal with this question have collapsed into a morass of state dysfunction, corruption, high unemployment and low economic growth - while creating a narrow and hugely wealthy politically-connected elite. However, unlike in the past, and particularly during the Mbeki-era, this propaganda is not being driven by the ANC and its cadres, but rather by race-aware individuals in South Africas mainstream media (of all colours) otherwise quite contemptuous of the Zuma administration. This propaganda is generally characterised by an intense focus on any incident of violence or indignity inflicted by whites on blacks; allegations of continuing and undeserved white privilege; claims that property, and particularly land, owned by whites was stolen; the effort to downplay or diminish incidents of black on white violence no matter how brutal; and outraged reactions to any call for equal treatment for individuals from the white minority. The following examples are illustrative of the febrile atmosphere of South Africas media, when it comes to racial issues.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=746906&sn=Detail&pid=71616
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:07:52 +0000
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