Voetsek <http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/media-flaws/2010/04/08/voetsek> *Unathi Kondile* 08 April, 2010
I am sick and tired of reading about TerreBlanche’s death. I am sick and tired of the martyr–isation of this savage racist. I am sick and tired of the South African media’s stance on this matter. Let’s get the facts straight here. Whilst journalists piggy-back one another to Luthuli House for press conferences on the muzzling of Malema there are poverty-stricken, innocent farm labourers who are bearing the full brunt of Terre’Blanche’s passing. Just this Tuesday a North West farmer is alleged to have beaten seven farm workers, to a standstill, with an iron rod. This farmer was released on R7000 bail yesterday. In this very same week a farmer named Johannes Du Toit in Randfontein went on a rampage shouting “you kaffirs with stinking vaginas, you have killed my uncle!” whilst he proceeded to electrocute his domestic worker and two other black farm workers with a cattle prod, thereafter shooting at them as they ran for safety. Are we seeing reports on this on news websites and local papers? No. Why? Because slowly but surely the agenda of South Africa’s media is coming home to roost. News, in this country, are written to pacify white minorities. News are determined by prejudice-loaded qualms of minorities, who by virture of resonance with largely white media moguls, ensure their lousy frustrations are dubbed national discourse and headlines of the day. Where "many South Africans feel..." actually means "many WHITE South Africans feel..." News agenda setting is themed with “will white people buy this?” and naturally Malema becomes an easy target as his utterances confirm white paranoias on black intentions. Yet, it is the very same media that created Malema via his 2008 declaration to take up arms and kill for Zuma, he became the Idiots Companion to Writing for the Media – just quote Malema and you’re sorted. And now they’re scouring around press conferences to hear whether or not Malema has been muzzled, for singing a song which they, together with opposition parties, deliberately linked to the killing of TerreBlanche so they could gain extra mileage on foreseeable Malema ad hominem attacks. In the meantime *die boere doen wat hulle het altyd gedoen* – which is to *moer die kaffirs*! It is no secret that farm workers in this country are the worst off - with masters who intimately declare their paternalistic love for them yet do not hold back in disciplining them like little children and mocking them, torturing them, inducing them *met die dop* [TerreBlanche bought his labourers two cases of Savannah, instead of paying them, just hours before his death] and consistently denying them permanent residencies on their farm lands. Yes. We know farm workers are treated like number 2. They are sub-human. Bobbejanetjies. Kaffirtjies. Elderly boys and girls. If anyone should be singing *Dubul’ ibhunu* it should be farm workers. Farm workers need to be empowered and if it means Malema must sing them out of this blindness, then so be it – he must sing that song till the cows of injustice come bleeding back from the hills of Ventersdorp. Black people cannot to this day and age be subject to white oppression. There is no place for that in this country. TerreBlanche had it coming the day he declared his hatred for black people. How do you suppose he even treated or worked with his labourers whilst harbouring intense hate and contempt for each and every one of them? You’d think this was logical, but no, our local lot of farmers are quite crass not to understand that if you treat your animals, or dogs, badly they are bound to turn on you, bite you, pull your pants down like you always do to them and humiliate you. It’s called retributive justice. It has been bottled up for some time and it’s time we told farm workers that their dependency on these savage *boere* needs to come to a halt. Government needs to provide them with living grants of some sort or alternative sustenance measures to ensure they are spared the inhumane ways of *die boere*. Let *die boere* use their own offspring for labour and leave the blacks alone. And whilst we're at it when does this Land Redistribution kick in? clearly we have an abundance of ungratefuls smugfully loitering on our land. And if these loiterers are still pushing for separate development, in our state, I have one word for them: *voetsek!* * http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/media-flaws/2010/04/08/voetsek* ** -- News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want to read. The rest is PR.— Claud Cockburn www.kwelaxpress.co.za -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. 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