Open Letter to Julius Malema, from Piet Skiet Rudolph

Mr Julius Malema
ANC Youth League
Luthuli House
Sauer Street
Johannesburg

Mr Julius Malema,

A friend of mine forwarded me a copy of your speech to students at the Free State University on Friday 22/01/2010.

It is obvious that you were again frothing at the mouth on your favourite topic - white racism. You apparently alleged that one should ‘not be afraid to confront issues of race’. I agree with you. Race is such a natural topic as is discussing the weather.

I am not a racist, but if racism means preference and love of my own people, the Boer people - and not even all whites- then I guess that I may qualify as racist.

But Mr Malema, you are a true racist and obviously suffering from a huge ego and an inferior complex when it comes to whites. You are nothing but a ‘Boere basher’.

It is reported that you said ‘those who have oppressed us should be pressed to show remorse and accept that African leadership was ruling the country.’ I thought that this happened in 1994, but in 2010 you are still pleading for ‘remorse’ and ‘pressure’. What kind of remorse - remorse because we were born with white skins? What kind of pressure - the often repeated slogan of the late Peter Mokaba "kill the Boer, kill the Farmer?"

I thought that the ANC wanted to create a fully integrated, inclusive new South Africa, with respect for everybody,the white minority included, to become a South African nation? This did not materialise and now you are propagating reverse apartheid! I did not think that the New South Africa was going to work, but your people had the opportunity to prove me wrong, having two thirds of the whites prepared to work towards your promised Utopia.

If that happened, it would have buried the apartheid and closed the book on the past. A new dispensation would have dawned, with whites contributing to it. This would have been an example for the world to see! But, that did not transpire, and affirmative action and blatant discrimination against our white minority became self evident. Even white children, born after the demise of apartheid, are now being discriminated against by you and your cohorts, believing that they should pay and suffer for ‘the sins of their fathers’.

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