Parties are playing with fire when they use racism for political gain
11 January 2019
The unfortunate incident that took place at the primary school in Schweizer-Reneke in the North West serves as proof that social cohesion in South Africa is busy unravelling due to the divisive policies that the ANC has followed over the last 24 years. In addition, political parties are playing with fire when they add to the tension by using racism for political gain.
A party like the EFF took the division that the government established over the last few years even further and it is lamentable that the official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has now also followed suit.
The FF Plus initially put off responding to the incident precisely because in this case the incident involves a school where there are Grade R learners present.
The FF Plus believes that these children of all races who only just started their schooling should have been shielded from the trauma of such a race debacle by all means possible.