South Africa's new Racist Party

My first blog post was morbid. Considering the tense mood in South Africa this week I surely can't be blamed for feeling a little gloomy. Much has been written on the murder of Eugene Tereblanche and it's consequences. Many people incite hate and fear with what they write most notably Dan Roodt which I see as a Far right extremist of the worst, the intellectual kind.

I don't have time to give my perspective on everything that happened thus far. I'll briefly comment on something that happened today. Both Visagie, a leader of the AWB and Malema, leader of the ANC youth league lashed out at the media today. In some strange way this coincidence showed them to be birds of the same feather- Undisciplined extremists who's uncomfortable with dialogue when spreading their racist rhetoric. Maybe this could help people to realize that racism in whatever form is unhealthy and ugly. Maybe black and white could in this way be united in a fight against racism and not against each other.