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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Among the responses to her comments was one from Tshidi Thamana, 21, an
aspiring actress, who evoked the memory of Nelson Mandela-era ANC Youth
League president Peter Mokaba, the original author of the apartheid struggle
slogan “Kill the Boer” which has caused controversy under modern
youth leader Julius Malema.
“Dear Mr Peter Mokaba … I wish All White People were killed when you
sang ‘Kill The Boer’ we wouldn’t be experiencing @JessicaLeandra’s racism
right now,” Miss Thamana tweeted.
When she in turn became the subject of condemnation, she apologised, saying: “Yes,
racism is wrong. It was tweeted in anger.” While dismissed by many as a
childish spat between two naive young women, the row has raised questions
about how much progress has been made in eradicating the scars of South
Africa’s apartheid which ended 20 years ago.
It came just days after a university student was suspended for allegedly
posting a racist message on Facebook.
Ken Sinclair, from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, posted a
message in which he allegedly said black people were “——-
brain-dead monkeys (who) always skinner (gossip) in their retarded language”.
The university said it had suspended Mr Sinclar pending an investigation.
Anita Hollis, director of Take 10 Casting who until recently had Miss Thamana
on her books for acting work, said she did not believe she was actually
racist.
“She is a young girl who was very naive, and probably thought she was
being cool by making a comment whose implications she didn’t realise,”
she said.
But she added that many young South Africans did seem to be more racist than
their parents.
“I think the older generation who saw Mandela come to power have worked
things out and settled down,” she said. “Perhaps for economic
reasons, because they are struggle to get jobs, and perhaps because they
listen to people like Julius Malema, the younger generation blame the racial
situation.”
Lucy Holborn, from South Africa’s Institute of Race Relations, said the
so-called “born-free” generation, who have few memories of
apartheid, simply failed to understand the sensitivities around such terms.
“That means that they are more flippant about using them, particularly in
their own social circles which are probably largely made up of people within
their own racial groups,” she said.
Mmusi Maimane, a social entrepreneur and spokesman for the Democratic Alliance
opposition party, which with a white leader and past links to the
apartheid-era National Party has grappled with race issues of its own, said
many people fell back on racial language to express frustration at unrelated
issues.
“When tensions rise about issues such as economic inequality or land
issues, people come out with a learned response that frequently involves the
old apartheid rhetoric,” he said.
Mr Maimane has arranged to meet both women today. They have both been reported
to the SA Human Rights Commission.
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