Racism in SA must be stopped - ministers
12 May 2016
Cape Town - Recent racist outbursts were unravelling what South Africa had achieved in its 22 years of democracy and could tear races apart, two Cabinet ministers and ANC veterans warned on Thursday.
"What is it that has sparked this kind of attitude in South Africa?" Acting Minister in the Presidency Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula asked at a post-Cabinet meeting briefing in Cape Town.
"It's not as though there is ignorance. It is because there are people who have decided that, in spite of everything in South Africa, they will simply continue because there is nothing stopping them," she said.
For this reason, Justice Minister Michael Masutha had proposed that new anti-racism and hate speech laws be drawn up.