Dear Lee-Anne, Vuyo and the SABC ,
With regard to the letter read out by yourselves 2 days ago from the Hispanic American lady regarding the origins of Barrack Obama and his race group, I think she has a point.
Barrack Obama and Lewis Hamilton are a mixed race between a white mother and a black father thus making them in South Africa a coloured male, however this is not the case.
Too often is the coloured population disregarded as an authentic race in South Africa, and who gave the black population the right to adopt us as their own, when it conveniently benefits them. I deal a lot with the state in terms of business and to register with the state one has to fill out entity forms which has a column for EE. This column clearly requires one to identify yourself in terms of racial group: I for Indian, C for Coloured, B for Black and W for White and probably soon they will put CH for Chinese. When one goes to the police station to report a crime one has to clearly stipulate which racial group was the perpertrator, then why is it that we differ for convenience. When Chester Williams, Breyton Paulse and Brian Habana won the South African Rugby Player of the year awards they were branded as blacks as well as when Brian Habana won the world player of the year award. So in essence no black man has won the rugby player of the year award yet!!!
The coloured and black populations in SA are clearly 2 different race groups in terms of values, culture, etc. We even have different diets, we still enjoy our koeksisters on Sunday mornings. Even a Chinese person who arrived in SA 2 months ago will distinguish the difference. Maybe we are branded black because the Chinese people for BBBEE purposes need to be branded Coloured. The only bond between us is one of inception which happened 300 years ago and even then it was between 2 racial groups, so why don’t they call us whites as some of us are whiter than the whites. Some of us are the mixture of Indian and Coloured, Indian and White, Coloured and White, Coloured and Chinese, Chinese and Chinese and so on.
The coloured man has achieved much recently and should be credited for his achievements. The Brazilian soccer team are mostly coloured folks, the Botswana president is coloured, Lewis Hamilton is coloured and the most powerful man in the world, Barrack Obama, is coloured. If the ANC got their act together they could have a coloured man who can lead them with integrity, vision and great leadership, namely Trevor Manual.
If the entire world has realized that a coloured man can lead them forward don’t you think it’s time for the SABC to at least put one coloured on morning live during the week. I’ve watched your show since its inception and as much as you preach rainbow nation, its still black and white. If Lee-Anne resigns she will be replaced by another white person, If Vuyo resigns he too will be replaced with a black person and this has been happening for years. Even the weather desk, economics desk and sports desk are the same. Almost 90% of your adverts are black and white. On one occasion your TV license guys turned up at my door and asked why I didn’t pay to which I responded “ I bought a color TV and only see black and white on it” Why don’t you have all four races represented in the morning? It becomes very difficult for me to explain to my sons why you people have such disregard for his race group and a race group that I am proud of and this being the motive for the letter. I’m sure you don’t call a Jewish man a Palestinian although they are cousins both coming from Abraham so why then make this convenient error with us. We are 2 different race groups.
We live in a country where it feels as if someone waved a magic wand and everybody forgot that there are coloured people living here. Please don’t forget to take the Brazilian team to visit their brothers in Eldorado Park, Wentworth and Manenburg when they jet in for the Confederation Cup and World Cup as the only place famous people are taken to is Soweto. Maybe also have a good look at them and try to see the difference, you will be astonished.
Concerned coloured,
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I read your article with much interest and I could not resist posting my comment; I grew up in Zimbabwe where so called coloured people(Yes, South Africa is not the only country to have had the same racial hierachy) were treated differently to whites, blacks and Indians. You see in the social engineering that the white racists used, coloured people were made to believe they were better than blacks and therefore superior. Things became interesting when a white man married a black woman that bore children of mixed race; those children had been known to shun thier mothers and in some extreme cases, locking her up in the "boys' khaya" (servantsquaters). As for the black mother's relatives, well they were simply not welcome in Barham Green, Ardbenie, and any of the many "coloured" townships set up by the white rascists. You see, that was classical divide and rule tactics. And woe to that so called coloured with krouse hair and dark skin because he would be labelled a "lost coloured" for his lack of curly/straight hair, green eyes and light skin. My friends, let us move away from the petty race classifications foisted upon us by the rascists who always ever wanted to divide us, rule us and plunder our resources. Coloured people should decide if they want to play an effective role in Africa because for God's sake you will find them all over the continent. Nuff said!
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