Sun May 19 10:14:46 SAST 2013

Students apologise for racist posts

Jul 31, 2012 | Sapa | 24 comments

Two former students who posted racist remarks on Facebook have apologised, the SA Human Rights Commission says

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Sun May 19 10:14:46 SAST 2013 ::
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Jul 31, 2012

cocolucho

Dont believe sinclair for a second, community service wont help that boy.
Isn't he the one that said that he wants to shoot the k*****rs, maybe thats what he will do during his "community service". Keep him away from all people of colour.
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Jul 31, 2012

hungry

@cocolucho
that is so true you don't know what he'll do to all people of colour.

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Jul 31, 2012

MommaC

"It did not name the individual."

Why not?
If they had the audacity to make the comments then they should at least have the balls to take the heat from them.


cocolucho

That boy child should be sent to live in a Somalian refugee camp for a couple of years. He certainly shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer or a cell phone
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Jul 31, 2012

Mapholobakay1

I still believe we should have had a civil war in this country at teach these arrogant racists a thing or two.

I can not be called names in Europe and America and still be discriminated in my own country. I bleksemed the white guy in the bus who was uttering racist cr@p at me. We must all do that cos toothless organisations like SAHRC or governed by the same race.
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Jul 31, 2012

Dzel

"IF" ... "IF YOU HAVE OFFENDED (US)".

That is not a sign of someone who is remorseful of their actions. They are sorry they got caught and punished, not for their racist views.

You deserve everything coming your way and more, my jaw dropped when I read those comments for the first time. I could not understand how someone so young could be that racist. The two deserve the harshest sentence possible and more inspite of the so-called apology.
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Jul 31, 2012

MommaC

Mapholobakay1

That is because you are young and ignorant. A full on civil war is the last thing SA ever needed. Just look at the other parts of the world and see how many dozens of decades it takes to overcome the effects of a civil war.

Nobody should put up with racist utterances - regardless of what colour the person is. It is when we have people in the pubs who stand up and say 'that is unacceptable language' or on public transport and say 'I will not put up with that'. Then we know that it is not a universal problem but one that is only perpetuated by a few ignorant fools
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Jul 31, 2012

ntshware-ke-yawa

people must learn that nowadays we have most advanced technological devices that could assist in tracing not only the ordinary Tom,Harry and Peter but most well-organised mafia and high crime syndicates for as long as one is using the very same networks that are accessed by everyone not forgetting our Intelligence Institute.Remember the story of ANC cadre (Mr Kunene) and his e-mail saga.
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Jul 31, 2012

Shredder

@Mapholobakay1
I still believe we should have had a civil war in this country at teach these arrogant racists a thing or two.

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White people were going to annihilate you quickly. They were in control of the army, police force and even some of their civilians possessed firearms. We don't need war in South Africa.
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Jul 31, 2012

cocolucho

@mommaC
I hear that somalia is a great place to relax in and very hospitable, I think that north korea might be better I think that he should try getting into it with the help of his friend and once they get tired of it, they should try and get out by themselves. If he manages to survive that then we know that he is trully sorry.
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Jul 31, 2012

MommaC

cocolucho

LOL
I like the way you think :)
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Jul 31, 2012

Tabza325is

@Mapholobakay1
I still believe we should have had a civil war in this country at teach these arrogant racists a thing or two.

War is not the way to go, we are not Europeans or Americans running around starting wars when we feel like it, they is no progress in war, racism will always be part of some races, especially races that are concerned with self-preservetion. The only way to go is for everybody to marry or interbreed with everybody and dialute our current races into one breed world wide.
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Jul 31, 2012

Maratachelete

I think people are now susing racial slurs to belcome celebrities.I mean,haven't we had enough of this already,first there were models and now this.Some people need to grow seriously.
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Jul 31, 2012

Timelontswalony

I am not buying that one bit, he is apologising so that he can go back to school.

I read his update, and it wont take just a few months to have a change of heart like that
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Jul 31, 2012

Chichi7

"Am sorry if I have offended" is not an apology. An apology is when the person realises that what they did offended someone else and not if they offended someone.
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Jul 31, 2012

OLDLADY4

Oh please. This is the trouble with so many people nowadays. Speak before they think. If you really didn't mean it, you shouldn't have said it in the first place, and if you meant it, then stick to your guns, no matter what people label you. At least then everyone knows where they stand with you.
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Jul 31, 2012

knobkirrie

It is going to take at least 100 years for racism to disappear in SA. White people's mentality will not change in our lifetime. I just hope our grandchildren would judge people not by skin colour, but by content of their character, as the great Martin Luther King Jnr once said. But the current white people?? They are the product of Baaskap, Kragdadigheid, and they all think black people owe them oral sex
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Jul 31, 2012

OLDLADY4

Knobkirrie, and what exactly is wrong with kragdadigheid?
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Jul 31, 2012

knobkirrie

Ask your friend Verwoerd, oh he's dead, then ask Malan, oh sorry he's also dead as a Dodo. i lived under JB Voster, PW Botha and all other BOSS criminals and I remember that kraddadigheid was used to keep me in subjection. It was used a military wing of apartheid. Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer
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Jul 31, 2012

Ayobas

The need a serious councelling, wish he/she was staying at Phuma sibethane... Anyway se-Tswana sa re lefoko ga le boe, go boa monwana.
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Jul 31, 2012

OLDLADY4

Knobkirrie, you must have the wrong word, I'm sure. Kragdadigheid is a beautiful quality to have. It means you put action to your words, instead of just talking, talking. Something we can do with in government nowadays. Now, as for baasskap, I believe your forefathers lived under it long before the white man came to Africa. You just had a different word for it. It was whatever you called the king or leader of your tribe or group. Even the animal kingdom experience baasskap. As long as people or animals form groups, there will always be baasskap.
Oh, and by the way, there is no such thing as a stupid question....only stupid answers. You quote the great Martin Luther King Jnr, but you forget to live by his example. He never took the actions of one or two people to define a complete group. He would have called that racism, something which you are quick to recognise in others,but fail to see in yourself.
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Jul 31, 2012

M'Lungu

Eish! Mapholobakay1 - Are you just plain stupid or did someone drop you on your head as a child?
Civil war!!!!! Look at the rest of Africa, your mampara!!!
We need progression - not primitive animal - like behaviour that will be to the detriment of Black people anyway, as the poor "have nots" always suffer the most in a war situation, wake up your buffoon!!!
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Jul 31, 2012

truthhurts4real

why do they not name and shame these vile creatures. is it because they are white? just asking.
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Jul 31, 2012

9janavy

I read the sinclair boys's tweet and i must say that i have read worse on news24.If you want to see the how riddled with hate the minds of some South Africans are visit the comments sections sowetanlive, timeslive and new24.

A lot of people here are crucifying these kids but they themselves are worse.Discrimination is practiced by most South Africans so nothing new there.It is the way of life in SA.Everybody hates everybody because of either skin color,nationality,language or tribe.Until South Africans start to individually take responsibility for their actions and make amends, this kind of thing will never stop.
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Jul 31, 2012

knobkirrie

OLDLADY4- Dont confuse feudal system with apartheid (baasskap) system. Kings and leaders (everywhere in the world) lived a class system, whereby the rich rule and the poor get ruled. Some monarchs used the divide and rule policy, only to conquer other nations. Apartheid used divide and rule to secure the white man on the pinnacle, whilst the rest find problems with each other. If you are such an expert on MLK jnr, how come you let apartheid continue for 3 more decades? Its because you were benefiting from a 'whites only' policy. I can argue (politically) at the highest level, but I wont stoop to defending my principles against an ideology that regard other human beings as inferior. Even today, you and your people still own our country, if you want to call that freedom, then I am the pope. Baaskap is a product of apartheid, get you facts right!!
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