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“Ladies and gentlemen, we can all agree that what happened in Senekal and Brackenfell will never happen again, we hope. Nor should we shy away from condemning how some leaders among us behaved in both incidents, ”said the former mayor of Ekurhuleni who now chairs the portfolio committee on social development.
“We must be able to rise as leaders in this country and commit to the prevailing conditions that have led to this debate today. We must be solution-oriented and not fall into the trap of polarizing and sowing disunity among our people ”.
The district attorney’s Zakhele Mbhele said it was ironic that the debate took place the day before the EFF’s scheduled rally at Brackenfell High School.
“It is a very sad day in our country when schools become places of such racial hostility … a scenario that echoes similar and equally abhorrent flashpoints in the early 1990s, when there were also clashes with racial loading on white-only school sites began to desegregate.
“Our responsibility as leaders is not to stoke and intensify animosities, but rather to lead by example, dialogue and respectful commitments that promote understanding and broad commitment to reaching solutions to the many problems we face,” said Mbhele.
But EFF’s Sinawo Tambo said non-racism would remain a pipe dream as long as most of the economy remained in the hands of a white minority.
“It is the control of more than 80% of the land of this country by the white minority that makes non-racism and social cohesion impossible. It is the fact that our mothers and grandmothers clean the toilets during the day and go home to use the well toilets at night that makes social cohesion impossible, ”he said.
IFP’s Narend Singh said that all citizens must show a commitment to non-racism.
“This is not an easy task. The reality is that there will always be smaller groups and larger cultural groups, and diversity of viewpoints. It means that each of us must be willing to listen to and respect others. being an event, it will be a process that begins in our schools, ”he said.
Corne Mulder of FF Plus was concerned that the country had a highly racialized society in which some people felt left out. “What is the problem, why don’t we have social cohesion and why do we always talk about it? I believe that the construction of social cohesion will not be successful if we simply continue to move from one sporting event to another without successfully creating a sense of belonging among our people ”.
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