PLEASE allow me the opportunity to respond to the article “Ngoro invites Khoisan intellectuals”, which appeared in City Press of August 14.
I would like to thank Blackman Ngoro for opening an issue which we as Khoisan rights campaigners have been discussing all along – that coloured people should shed their coloured identity and reclaim their original identities, culture and heritage.
Now is the time for an in-depth public debate across the country for the coloured community to engage in dialogue and debate about the future of this minority community in post-apartheid South Africa.
I was not aware of the Ngoro saga until I opened the newspapers and saw the media hype about remarks posted on his personal website that “coloureds are culturally inferior to black people, drink cheap alcohol . . .” . Ngoro’s remarks may be offensive, but I for one agree with him that coloured people are indeed happy-go-lucky people who are culturally inferior to black people.
As long as they go to work five days a week, show-off their new expensive car sound systems during weekends and go to church on Sundays, coloured people are the happiest bunch of people in the world.
It pains me to hear remarks from coloured people that they are comfortable with being coloured and pay no attention to the emergence of the Khoisan renaissance in areas like Kimberley, Upington, Bloemfontein or Eersterus in Tshwane.
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Blackman Ngoro, I think it is obvious that you have been ‘Khoza’d’.