Coffin assault sentencing action needed to obliterate racism - Ramaphosa
Johannesburg - Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the sentencing of the coffin assault duo, calling it a step in the right direction towards obliterating racism.
Speaking at an Oliver Tambo lecture in the Western Cape’s Dulah Omar region, Ramaphosa said the sentencing of Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson are the "types of action from our courts, from our justice system that we will be able to demonstrate that we want to obliterate racism from the face of South Africa forever and that this country must be a non-racial country.
This, he said, was what Tambo stood for.
"We must also make sure that non-racism is also practised within our own movement. Within the ANC. We must demonstrate that we have embraced non-racialism completely," he added.
He said the country should reflect on how such hate crimes are possible and what can be done to change such attitudes that give right to them.