The Genocide Elephant In The Room

Until the elephant in the room is acknowledged and removed, denials of white genocide are going to ring hollow (IOL, May 27).

In an address to the G20 Development Working Group, Nomthandazo Moyo of the Department of Agriculture stated: “There is no deliberate action by this government to kill white people… Our legislation and the application thereof embraces humanity irrespective of race.”

Former Cabinet minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, says assertions of white genocide are unfounded. “I think it is deliberate misinformation.”

If it is government policy to “embrace humanity irrespective of race,” why does it permit Julius Malema to advocate mass hatred and mass murder of white people? There is absolutely no misinformation about what Malema is inciting. The effect of the bloodthirsty poison with which he is saturating the minds of millions cannot be casually fobbed off.

If the ANC government truly embraced humanity, it would act decisively and conclusively in dealing with Malema and his ilk. It managed to act with alacrity and firmness against two hapless white women, Vicky Momberg and Penny Sparrow, for racial references that are mild in comparison with Malema’s white slaughter incitement.

So, here’s the challenge: until and unless the elephant in the room, Malema, is arrested, convicted of inciting white genocide, and his racist demagoguery is declared punishable by lengthy imprisonment, there can be neither credibility nor assurance from the ANC that white genocide intentions are merely “misinformation.”