South Africa: Selective Transformation

Over the past few weeks the young activists have been protesting to have the Cecil John Rhodes Statue removed. Of course the scholarship must stay, they want the money but not statue because it is offensive and reminds the students of colonialists. 

The Selective Transformation post below raises some pertinent questions to the young activities who believe protesting is the answer. Hopefully they can answer the questions raised.

Comment: White Afrikaners still remember their woman and children who died in British concentration camps during the time of Rhodes. Strangely enough, the same Afrikaners managed to live with the Rhodes statue for decades and never called for it's removal. Why? Because it's a historical monument, and although Afrikaners have enough reason to hate Rhodes, he features in English South African history.

English South Africans have been done an injustice. A part of their history has been erased and they have been demonized. The statue of Paul Kruger, who had nothing to do with apartheid by the way, is next. What we're seeing here is a systematic cultural purge.

Foreign nationals are being attacked and their businesses are looted. Minorities are being marginalized. White farmers are being slaughtered daily. Government has instructed foreign nationals to sell their property in SA for the sake of "redistribution". This week Mugabe visited the SA president and they had a good old laugh together about Blaire. The signs are there. SA is going the route of Zim.

These people are not only ignorant but stupid. White South Africans have rights too. These are our historical figures, whether they like them or not.

Comment posted to the Guardian LV article

South Africa Erasing Historical Past by Burning Statues

http://guardianlv.com/2015/04/south-africa-erasing-historical-past-by-burning-statues/#OzFgT9puedy5SKpq.99

I learned I was not, as most Africans believed, the victim of my circumstances but the master of them.

~Legson Kayira