ANC: Coloureds Were Not Disadvantaged Enough
Speaking almost immediately after him you would have expected ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama to downplay Boesaks comments and start talking about how the ANC aims to unite those who were downtrodden by the Apartheid state. Well you would be wrong. He replied:We have deliberately allowed the ANC to bring back the language of racial categorisation. In the 1990s, all of a sudden we were told again, you are Africans, you are coloureds, you are Indians, you are white.
What is referred to as a strategic objective of our struggle, which is there in all documents of the ANC since days immemorial, is that we are fighting for the liberation of black people in general because black people in general have been oppressed in South Africa.
However, we move on to say that we are fighting for the liberation of the African in particular.
I’m suprised he didn’t get up on the podium and proclaim “Four legs good! Two legs better!!”.
And then at the same conference the ANC Western Cape deputy provincial secretary Max Ozinsky criticised Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille for “perpetuating the separate development sins of apartheid” by grouping some largely black populated areas on the Cape Flats under once subcouncil and largely coloured populated areas under another. Zille justified such a decision saying that the areas in each subcouncil had different problems that could be better addressed if they were under one administrative area.
Perhaps she had already taken the words of Smuts Ngonyama to heart.
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