Letter in Financial Mail

So Commission and Employment Equity chair Ms Mpho Nkeli is an enthusiast for demographic representativity in the jobs field. Perhaps she does not know that  the last country to seriously attempt this was Nazi Germany, The problem ( amongst many others) was how to identify those Jews who pretended to be of Aryan stock. South Africa finds itself in a similar predicament. What to do about " Coloureds" , for instance. Is, say, the well known and highly respected Professor Jonathan Jansen ( my apologies to him) of the Free State University African or Coloured ? He says he is neither, that he is black, and he is indeed very dark skinned. But his surname is Afrikaans. You’d have to call him in to test just  how "African"  he really is. Perhaps Ms Nkeli can find some of those Verwoerdian SA Bureau Of Racial Affairs operatives and bring them out of hiding to assist identifying where African ends and Coloured begins, or even where white ends and Coloured begins.  One thing is sure, we will one day  look back on this era with feelings of the same disgust we now feel for apartheid era racism.  You will never achieve the goals of non racialism  through these kinds of neo Nazi racism. Or is this the better life for all we were promised once, long ago ?

Dr Gavin Lewis

DA MPL Gauteng Legislature