Thursday 14 July 2011

Another lovely warm winter's day in Dordrecht after another frosty morning. These winter days are so enjoyable! Quiet in the town of Dordrecht, in fact it is so sleepy at the moment, that the police, while patroling down our main street, don't even bother to look left or right, and will turn in front of an on-coming motorist - genuine! This morning watching E News Channel (403 on DSTV) I was very distressed to hear Roux Shabangu use the race card to defend his actions in the Public Prosecutors probe into the R1.7 billion deal with the SAP through Bheki Cele. His words in his interview were as follows: "...because I'm a successful Black man in a White run business sector..." Because we are in contracting / tenders for the government, I know for a fact it is more a Black run business sector, and so what - a person is a person is a person no matter what colour, creed or culture. Surely South Africans need to overcome these prejudical nuances and not use race, most especially, when there is fault or a probe. If Roux Shabangu and minister Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde have done the tenders with irregulatories, broken the law, and have not complied to the constitution, then surely they must face the relevant punishment for their actions - because they've broken the law - not because of race. I'm starting to find the whole blame-shift, especially in the area of race, pretty tedious. It's time South African's moved on after 17 years of democracy - we need to in order to grow as a nation in my opinion.