Marcus writes: “But Guy does have a point”, and then goes on to say: “Oh, and we’d like the wheel back too please.”

If you take his crazy mentality to its logical conclusion, then let us add in other non-African creations – like concentration camps, cluster bombs, etc. Yes, please, take them back.

Marcus seems too blinkered to perceive that there is lotsa bad stuff that comes out of non-African places.

But worse, can a person in 2008 really claim some kind of group credit for the invention of the wheel, as he does?

Track back your own lineage boet! Even then, so what if it was your great-x-factor-of-500-granma who got the notion? It’s absolutely meaningless.

We’re talking common human heritage, not some bullshit racial property. Marcus, skud yourself man!

Otherwise, you may want to hand over the language you write in. I don’t quite think it originates in the middle east, whence perhaps knowledge of the wheel was first recorded, and which heritage you now wish to appropriate for “us”. Yugh.

@Sammy D: we are already “effing off”. In numbers so high that the department of home affairs put a moratorium on collection of statistics on people who emigrated. It’s why SA is in such dire straits. Haven’t you heard about the massive increase in appointments being made with immigration agencies?

But Guy does have a point: And as a white person, let me apologise unreservedly. From all of us. We’re terribly sorry we dragged you kicking and screaming into the industrial age. You’ve got your country back now, and you and “your ilk” are doing a fine job of putting it back the way it was before the Dutch East India company arrived here. Who needs electricity, potable water and efficient medical care anyway? Your government doesn’t seem to think you do. They’ll be happy to knock you all the way back to mud huts and cattle-herding. It keeps you dumb, and it keeps you voting for them.

One last thing before you go: just be sure you hand back crop rotation, writing, and increased life expectancy, OK?

Oh, and we’d like the wheel back too please.

If it were not for the white man, you and I would probably be running around naked, looking after our fathers’ cattle and definitely speaking Zulu ( read mfecane). The white man taught us to read and write and propelled us into the 21st century, hence your office job. Judging by your comments I seriously doubt that you have white friends; -colleagues perhaps. A black racist is as reprehensible as any other. By the way, you know you’re a racist when you think in terms of “us” and “them”.

why do people use the term ‘coconuts’?

You only have to look at the agenda of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) to understand why they use those terms – they want to exploit the ignorance of poor African people.

The Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ):
To hide the fact that there is a lack of service delivery.

That is why they use the term ‘coconuts’ to censor the views of those that want to expose black leadership’s failure to deliver services in SA and Zimbabwe.

That is what the secrecy is all about.

It’s not the empowerment that p*sses us off, it’s the stupidity!