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Stop Fearing White People

"Hitler managed to sell an idea to his people," says Wits University SRC president Mcebo Dlamini at the start of an ENCA television interview in response to his comment that he loved German dictator Adolf Hitler. At the beginning of the interview Dlamini says that he admired Hitler because he managed to round up support and sell an "idea" to his people, this is despite Hitler being an evil man who employed brainwashing propaganda to reach his means. Dlamini also states, "-the problem with leaders today is that they fail to sell their ideas to their people." What is this idea that Dlamini desperately wants to sell?

The interview can be summed up with the following paraphrased extracts: Dlamini praised Hitler's better qualities in much the same way as white people did with Rhodes. This is how he justifies his comments. He also says that every single white person possesses an element of Hitler, which is hate and racism. He then declares that black people can't be racist and that white people are sucking our economy dry. Basically, Dlamini desires a government as fearless as the Nazis, whilst he compares whites to being a burden to our country like the Jews were made out to be to the Nazis.

Dlamini claims that he is merely praising Hitler's organisational skills, however, I doubt he would run through the trouble to praise that aspect of him if that is all he wanted to say. It would have been pretty pointless. He might as well have said the same about Rhodes. 
Dlamini ends off, rather heatedly, by saying the following: "I love Robert Mugabe for what he did for Zimbabwe. South Africa is still going to go that way of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's economy is actually going up and our economy is going down because we have leaders who are scared of white people." This final remark reveals his true intent behind praising Hitler. Like Mugabe, Hitler had little respect for minorities. Hitler was not afraid of the Jews; Mugabe was not afraid of white farmers and the Ndebele. Dlamini's comments should be regarded as hate speech since his urging for leaders to stop fearing white people can be construed as incitement to violence. Unfortunately, taking him to court will not solve the problem of how black people perceive whites. I care less for what one individual says and more for what a nation thinks. 

The common tune among leaders today such as Julius Malema and Robert Mugabe is to stop fearing white people. I have to ask though, why would someone fear my skin colour and what would the consequences be if people stop fearing it? We have a citizenry that is easily influenced by its leaders. The Zulu King's comments on foreigners allegedly resulted in the recent spate of xenophobic violence, for example. Therefore, Dlamini's words should be denounced by South African leaders, but I have yet to have heard of a single leader doing that. It is up to our leaders to produce a positive nation but the fact is our leaders happen to be saying what their followers believe. How unfortunate.

The fact that our leaders are encouraging tension amongst our races (whether intentional or not), rather than trying to unify us hints of an imminent genocide. Even with the high murder rates on farms, I don't believe there is an active genocide underway against whites. However, I do believe that if leaders are successful in selling the idea to "stop fearing whites" a genocide could be carried out. If xenophobic violence can explode so easily (just by a few comments made by one individual), I just can't see why a genocide would be impossible. Words can be very powerful and unfortunately in South Africa these words keep getting louder. 

Dlamini is not the only person to make headlines in the media for his anti-white sentiment. There has been a big increase in the media in the past year. This is in contrast to "anti-foreigner sentiment" which rarely makes the news. 

"I don't want to see a white face" - Robert Mugabe, April 2015.
"Eskom crisis is apartheid's fault" -  Jacob Zuma, January 2015.
"SA's problems began with Jan van Riebeeck" - Jacob Zuma, February 2015.
"It (the ANC) protects white privilege and keeps you in poverty" - Julius Malema to Alexandra residents on an anti-xenophobia campaign, April 2015.
"Honeymoon over for white people in South Africa" - Controversial EFF banner, October 2013.
"I march because Africa is all I have. Europe is not an option for me." Anonymous "Rhodes Must Fall" protester. This was a message on her placard. [Source: "UCT: Rhodes Must Fall" Facebook page], March 2015.

"End white privilege" - Message displayed on defaced UKZN statue of King George V, March 2015.

“Attention comrades. Time to take back the NWU. Kill the boer, Kill the racist, Kill Afrikaans. Uhuru anakuja [Freedom is coming]” - Hate speech flyer distributed on NWU campus, August 2014.

"Black attitudes towards whites are hardening year on year while whites have softened." - following a poll of 25,000 people in Gauteng, August 2014.

"Nkandla stories are ‘white people's lies’" - Blade Nzimande, April 2014.

"There is unfortunately no place for racist institutions - no place. We will not allow such an institution." -  Blade Nzimande wanted private university Academia's registration withdrawn if it remained exclusively Afrikaans,  November 2014

"NWU: Puk remains fundamentally an apartheid institution" - Blade Nzimande, September 2014

Some other interesting quotes:
"73% of black Africans don't trust whites, compared to 44% of whites who don't trust black Africans" - following a poll of 25,000 people in Gauteng, August 2014.
"The ANC will rule until Jesus comes back" - A famous quote by Jacob Zuma, May 2008. 
"Jesus must return" - Jacob Zuma, September 2014 and again in December 2014. 

Famous headlines:
"Students face action after 'Blackface'" - August 2014.
"NWU investigates Nazi salute" - February 2014.
"Uproar over Nazi imagery used in Rhodes Must Fall protest" - March 2015.


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