The National Leader of the opposition DA, Musi Maimane, recently called for a fund to be established for the families of the 34 striking mine workers shot by police officers at Marikana in August of 2012 – an act that echoed around the world.
Anchen Dreyer, the Chairperson of the caucus of the DA in parliament, then reacted by asking that this issue is not to be made a racial issue.
Front National South Africa says: Damn this ridiculous political correctness. We are sick and tired of starting every single political argument in South Africa with: “We don’t want to make this into a racial issue, but….” “I am not a racist, but….”.
Politics in South Africa is inseparable from race – it has always been. Let’s deal with it. To keep directing attention to the fact that we should not bring race into the debate, does exactly that. So let’s deal with this in a politically incorrect way: We have immense empathy with the families of the 34 miners.
But fact of the matter is – these striking, armed and riotous miners stormed an outnumbered group of policemen.
Whether the action of the police was justifiable is a different question.
Fact is, they were not peacefully sitting on a sidewalk when they were shot.
So let us ask mr Maimane and ms Dreyer the real burning question: Why has the DA never called for the establishment of a fund for the families of farmers who were peacefully sleeping in their beds or busy with their daily task in the fields when they were killed in a more gruesome way than the 34 miners?
Could you kindly answer that, if you would? And we really don’t mind if you give us a politically incorrect answer – at least then for once it will be an honest one.
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