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The Coloured Social Genocide

I have allowed this piece or whatever comes out in the next few paragraphs to simmer in my mind for a bit before letting it out. The reason for this is the pure molten lava that has been coursing through my veins for the past few days.

 I just got back from Johannesburg a few days ago, business frequenting there ever more over the past few years. In this last period I experienced how deep divisions have crept into the psyche of people affected by the apartheid past. During this period the ‘Project Grabouw’ happened where again, political agendas seem to be costing our communities there safety and dignity. It is very scary that many1  are confident that the entire saga was engineered for political gain, at the expense of our communities, who seem to be pawns in this political game of ‘fighting for the Western Cape.’

 Over this last period in Jozi I was told by a young black, well known entertainer that, ‘there is only black and white, sorry I know you on that trip, but coloureds don’t exist.’  I was constantly…gently ignored at various service points for a few seconds then finally acknowledged in Xhosa or Zulu. On the one hand I was heartened by the affirmative pride demonstrated by the use of the mother-tongue of the petrol attendants but on the other hand painfully aware that I was being discriminated against because I was not able to respond in the language of the region. As a Capetonian, equally affected by the policies of the racist past, I grew up with the idea that English was the common language amongst peoples of diverse speech used as a lingua franca especially in commercial situations. It then occurred to me that the divisions of the past are still perpetuated even amongst people affected by the divisions caused by the apartheid regime as in the encounter at the service station.

There is indeed still a lot of work to do in discovering our common humanity, our common identity, away from the linguistic differences exploited by the perpetrators of apartheid.

The question is, how do we unmake the difference caused by our racist past?

 I would like to believe that we are here to explore and unpack every possible facet of relative existence as human beings!  

Our Nation is more liked to a bunch of knotted, multi colored shoe laces. The growing tension is making it ever harder to untangle all the hate knots.  We are 18 years into democracy after many years of…emotional and physical abuse. Now that is a teenager with an identity crises waiting to rage against the machine.  Those of us who are in the positions to influence this teenager cannot be acting as many of our politicians do.  This teenager is at the brink of war with itself. We as nation, I believe are on the verge of a social war that is the result of our current government using APARTHEID tactics to GAIN ABSOLUTE CONTROL of our diverse and DEMOCRATIC NATION!.

Now there are many battles being fought by many caregivers, but I believe one of my missions is to uplift and unite the peoples of the COLOURED NATION ,as I am a part of it. Yes, we need to say it more and more. Yes we need to be much more proud of it. We all know Coloured people are the most racist, classist and stervy NATION.  I will always support my own people first, because of the innate tribal nature inherent in all of us, but second and most importantly, because I understand the plight of our Coloured people. We are suffering in the dust of the Cape Flats we were thrown into.  Like the Red Indians and Aborigines we have been drowned in booze and drugs over the past, good few decades. This continues with power hungry motivation today. Are our police and city officials turning blind eyes for financial and racial gain? Is Cape Town still run by old white money? Are one in ten garages in Table View Chinese TIK LABS? Do we need a new party of leaders who care for our people for the sake of our people?

 This is our land. By large the Western Cape is run by COLOURED PEOPLE. Without us it could well come to a standstill. All those wine farms making millions on land taken from us, will, for starters, come to a grinding halt.

Why then are our people still fighting among each other and living in such capitalistic and spiritual poverty, with young boys raping each other to prove their dominance, while their parents lay button gefrek or chasing tik. We have at least ¾ of the voting power in the Western Cape, why else do you think the ANC wants to abolish the provinces and the DA funders are speculating whether or not to just sell their Constantia mansions and just permanently live in Europe, or try keep raping us for just a little bit longer before it all goes to shit and they can say, ‘see, told you they would fuck their own country up, savages!’.

What would happen if we slowly started supporting our own community leaders and more importantly ourselves, commercially and socially? What would happen if we realized we are being socially persecuted and have been engineered to socially persecute ourselves? What would happen if realized we put each other down to claim being more like the hand that fed us ‘a little more’ than others during the ghastly Apartheid era? We judge each others hair straightness, complexion and tekkies!!!  It baffles me that we do not realize we have the most beautiful, talented and highly intelligent individuals this country has ever seen among us. Er… off the top of my head er…Natalie Becker … Bryan Habana..and well… Trevor Manuel.

 How many people know that the Afrikaans language is actually ours? Our history, our people and the very existence of our culture is more and more put in question? Are we not Africa’s most diverse race, with ancestors from all corners of the earth and possibly tracing back to the cradle of mankind itself?

 I believe this is an era where we are uniting as a peoples on the Cape Flats and Western Cape at large. It is an era where community leaders and public figures are spending more time uplifting, educating and serving as examples of how persistence and dedication to any dream can see it become a reality, no matter how huge the dream or how dustier part of the Flats you come from. 

 I wonder at our power as a COLOURED NATION once we finally start UNITING and exercising the pride of King and Queen DNA flowing through our blood?

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