Comments on: The only ‘apie’ is Terre’Blanche

By: Benzol

Benzol — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:04:08 +0000

@Rose:”Comparing his insulting comment to a term of endearment you may use for your child or grandchild! Stating that if it has a small “a” then it’s not an insult!”

Look in the mirror and start smiling at yourself.

@Farouk: “ET is giving malema more ground than he dream of…”

You are right, but “publicity” is in the hands of the media. Anything controversial is headline news, sells and….get a response. Some I can laugh off, some I take seriously.

“you didn`t offend or call me what so ever….”
My upbringing does not allow for that and my English vocabulary is insufficient )

By: Mosotho

Mosotho — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:48:06 +0000

I wish someone could get Terri and JuJu into a “blabber ring”, i.e. Bebra patta’s show…with mean toungue gloves off and let them do it to each other “skin to skin”.
It should be interesting to catch such discussion on national TV so that we can have more political comedy. Terri needs to trace his ancestors back to Dutchland…seriously. He is like a poodle waging war at a bull terrier that has already recognised that it will get itself into troubly just with one bite on that peanut brain that is full of spite and anger.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:28:19 +0000

“Anyone with half a brain is aware of the connotations being suggested by someone who draws a link between a black person and a monkey.”

Don’t you mean “a person and a monkey” ???

By: MLH

MLH — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:18:53 +0000

James Mashele: Good on you!
Jon Story: Good on you!

Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me! They do, though, signal a complete lack of couth and common decency.
I have been called any number of names in my life and I often call my son names though, within the family environment he usually takes it utterly for granted that I’m just being funny.
I’m sure we’ve all been called names along the way and survived. More worrying is that we are all now so neurotic about it.
I don’t like what ET said. He should have kept his trap (see, a name…) shut, but I equally dislike JM’s common calls to arms. At least we know that ET will never rule us…

By: Rose Morrow

Rose Morrow — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:33:41 +0000

Hugh – do you really think ET has a “huge unvoiced support”? I think he probably has very little support voiced or unvoiced. And I think Ju Ju has a huge voiced support and lots of support as yet unvoiced publically – more than is comfortable for me anyway.

By: Alan Egner

Alan Egner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:44:28 +0000

Cherish your freedom of speech lest it slowly slip from your grasp. If you find yourself having whispered conversations in your own house or office, you will know that it is already too late.

By: Farouk Ali

Farouk Ali — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:36:44 +0000

@Benzol i got your point but while you didn`t like my comment you didn`t offend or call me what so ever. My point is if any person is against what malema is saying which i do then ET is giving malema more ground than he dream of to prove to the majority of ANC supporters that he is 100% right in his opinions. As you said Benzol we must grow up but then we must look forward to our future and baried our historical diffrences which will take a lot of effort but south africa deserve it from us as the first real democracy generation.

By: Hugh Robinson

Hugh Robinson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:40:05 +0000

Mike you surprise me. For all your grandstanding over the years about freedoms including that of speech I would think that you would support the Oomie until he was proven guilty

To be frank, like Malema they say it as they see it. Both claim not to be racists. Both have huge unvoiced support.

The difference between the two is that Malema is a practicing President who has not learned to be hugely ambiguous when talking.

Oomie’s every word is analysed to the point where anything he says is deemed to be racist. So let them Fluff and Puff in competition to each other.

There is a lot to be learned by gauging each support base. If we hear too loud a cheer in the Malema camp we know what the whites are in for. Then conversely we will know what the future black government is up against with Oomie and his followers. We must learn from the Nats. To suppress freedom of public speech means that we never know how the opposition thinks.

Here’s a thought, just shows how safe the Panyaza Lesufi felt in that racist crowd or does he rely on hearsay for a largely unreliable press?

By: Jon Story

Jon Story — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Ag Pieter, ‘apie’ is really a term of endearment but the context in this case is used to make it sound racist. Nobody really knows what a racist is: it means different things to different people. What people call you is not a refelection on you but on them. Remember the Spanish Queen who called the freedom fighters of the low countries who were trying to gain independence, ‘beggars’ (geux). She meant it to be a derogatory term, a ‘skeldwoord’. Lo and behold the selfsame ‘geux’ took the term as a badge of honour, which it is till today. No HRC was ever involved. The rainbow nation must still learn to live with itself: only then will the sharp and raw edges of taking everything so deadly serious wear off. Relax!

By: Rose Morrow

Rose Morrow — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:33:28 +0000

I have quoted it before but it’s just too tempting to pass up the opportunity to quote it again: “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool that to open it and resolve all doubt”. ET should take cognizance of it and probably some of us on the blog too! Comparing his insulting comment to a term of endearment you may use for your child or grandchild! Stating that if it has a small “a” then it’s not an insult! What did ET pronounce at the time that he was saying it without a capital letter? And I guess his supportive audience sniggered or laughed out loud at the comparison? Why do we think it is okay to have fun at someone else’s expense? I don’t get it. If people are hurt and fractured by our utterances, it is not funny – just uneducated and in poor taste. In the end these are simply bullying tactics and bullies are almost always weak and cowardly. In the end this reflects on ET and not on the subject/s of his scorn ~ doesn’t make it less inflammatory or hurtful though. It’s just inexcusable!