A police report says that a man has appeared in court for allegedly insulting former president Nelson Mandela during a Potjiekos competition at Sun City near Rustenburg, North West. This is scary stuff, seeing that we all have constitutional rights to trade insults – or so I believed. Mandela doesn’t even know about the incident. Doesn’t the affected party have to open a case against the insulter for the case to go to court?
This guy’s only mistake is that he decided to launch a musical career by doing a kaffir version of the South African new national anthem and then threw in Nelson Mandela’s name there just to spice things up – also to do some big name calling just as rappers do if they want their albums to sell. As they say in rap lingo “drop it like it’s hot”.
According to the police report “it is alleged that during the competition he (Benjamin Burger, 46) played a CD…containing remixed lyrics of the national anthem, and people who attended the event listened to the song Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, which continued to say Nelson Mandela is a kaffir.”
Now Benjamin is no student at the University of the Free State and neither does he stay at the univeristy’s Reitz residence. He is a grown up and a shareholder of Falcon Security Company which provides security services at the Sun City hotel, which incidentally hosted the Potjiekos competition. He was playing no prank, but was merely excercising his constitutional right to freedom of expression and enjoying whatever it is that Potjiekos competition contestants do. We can’t also rule out the possibility of him trying to launch a music career.
I mean our deputy police minister Fikile Mbalula has been trading insults with Kader Asmal. Words like lunatic were tossed about, and the MK veterans jumped in and spiced it up with stronger words like “find the nearest cemetery and die”. Julius Malema and Helen Zille have enjoyed that pastime too as we sat glued to our newspapers whisky and Cubans in hand. Riverting stuff.
Malema has basically traded insults with almost everyone from Cope to DA, and does not spare his own comrades in the ANC and SACP – Naledi Pandor and Blade Nzimande will attest to that.
Now that’s democracy at its best and I love it that way.
I don’t see anything wrong with Zuma’s “mshini wam” mixed with the hit single “kill the boer, kill the farmer” by the late Peter Mokaba and a dash of Mr Burger’s kaffirnated Nkosi sikele’iAfrika. I would make for a chart burning release, akin to Arthur “king of kwaito” Mafokate’s “Don’t call me kaffir”.
In Zimbabwe I am told people get arrested for making uncomplimentary statements about uncle Bob, and sometimes for just looking like a member of the movement for democratic something. We should not head that way.
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What is wrong with the damn ”white people” in Africa…..
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Why in the name of God and every other ”god” do they want to keep on using these kind of derogatory names knowing full well the implications of the word’s……
Don’t these ”white people” have any humanity in them at all…….?
Shit but I am so sick and tired of this crap these people need to piss off out of Africa.
