I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this for a week now. You check last weekend I was laming with my motchie, my one female cousin, my male cousin and his sister’s daakie boyfriend in Delft drinking three beers. The conversation somehow went to Helen Zille and that led to the daakie bra saying something that started up a moerse debate.

He said that the people of Khayelitsha have stored guns and other weapons and are waiting for the day that Nelson Mandela Dies, then they will start a riot and take over South Africa, because “South Africa belongs to the black people” and no white man will at that time be able to come into the black townships. He also said that they will attack all white people in South Africa. What crap is that? Isn’t apartheid supposed to be a thing of the past?

He added that if he goes looking for a job one of these days, no company is going to tell him they don’t have work for him. He will just force them to give him a job, because “this country belongs to my people”. He will also just go into any shop and take what he wants without paying if he is hungry and won’t allow himself to be arrested, because he has a right to eat whenever he wants to... Now I look at this bra and wys him, “my broe where do you get that Stupid mentality from? You can’t just expect to get things easily without having to work for it”

He then says it’s not a stupid way of thinking... “us black people from Khayelitsha and Gugulethu were the one’s that fought for Freedom so that people like you can enjoy life the way it is today”..

I then ask him, “Do you know what happened during the days of the riots?” As I expected he said he never saw it for himself, but heard what his older family members said about it. I then told him that as far as I know, us coloured mense were just as involved as the daakies with Fighting for freedom... we also had people die... I myself suffered the effects of tear-gas and having to run from School, because school ended early due to riots and men in brown uniforms sitting in Caspers shooting rubber bullets and tear-gas and the grown-ups around me and other kids fighting back with stones and petrol bombs, so don’t tell me our people didn’t help fight for freedom.

I then nicely excused myself and said I don’t have time to listen to such bullshit...

Salute till my nex post!