Joseph Aranes starts his column not with an issue but with an attack on the person of the writer. There is a degree of incompleteness about this approach. This approach doesn’t constitute a rounded, coherent whole, but displays a conflict and contradiction of meanings” as argued by Macherey. In Macherey’s argument we understand that being “incomplete” merely refers to the writer’s ideology, which silences the writer’s approach at certain points.
Aranes writes Roderick “Free Blackman” Ngoro to indicate a contemptuous familiarity with the writer and not with the article in question. This ideology of contempt is the glue which sticks the article together. It is Arane’s narrow-minded ideology horned on the streets of his upbringing about those of Ngoro’ hue which he now brings out forth on the pages of a newspaper to make it available to a wider audience.
In other words he fails to separate Ngoro the person, from the write-up and Ngoro the colour of his skin. These are the issues which overwhelm Aranes to the extent of showing through a contrived familiarity intent on deceiving his readers into buying his mechandise. In this way he tries to project a naturalness in what he says which he expects his reader to take without a pinch of salt because familiarity makes it believable.
Aranes doesn’t see a difference between what is on the page and the image of the writer stuck in his head. He comes up close and personal as if he were sitting with the writer across the table. Though the personal is contrasted with the use of the full name, “Roderick Free Blackman Ngoro, there is something impersonal about the personal. There is an ulterior motive to the personal. To provide context, Aranes knows Blackman Ngoro’s positions on “Coloureds” and also in the Western Cape from the time they both worked on the Cape Argus before Ngoro went to improve his educational level to gain a Masters degree at Rhodes while Aranes remained in the same base intellectual position.
Aranes worked with Ngoro in the Cape Argus news room for two years. In those two years there were editorial fights in the newsroom based precisely on the Coloured/African issue. Aranes remembers well when he tried to gang-up against Ngoro together with two other senior Coloured colleagues and he demanded Ngoro stop speaking for them in Ngoro’s articles on the same news paper.
Ngoro turned around and asked Aranes and the other two in his company, “You and who else?”
He looked around him and said the three of them but certainly Aranes who was the spokesperson in this group gave the impression that the word had come from up above. The editor then was Moegesien Williams, currently editor of the Star in Johannesburg. So the stage for the fight which Aranes has used to confront Ngoro now was set many years ago. In other words Aranes’ deep-seated hatred for Ngoro’s intellectuality is legendary at the Argus to the extent that it is Aranes, and Ashley Smith who first peddled the lies that Ngoro had an affair with the executive mayor, Nomaindia Mfeketo.
These are lies which they gave to some stupid Independent Newspaper rag which they then used to publish these lies in order to continue the fight against Ngoro. Their strategy was that the allegations must first appear in the rag in order for their more “respectable” newspapers to touch the story so they could say it appeared in the rag. But Ngoro knows everything about that strategy and how it was supposed to worked.
Later on Aranes tried to sell Ngoro that the idea had been David Briar's and his side-kick Myolisi Gophe, the news editor and reporter at the Weekend Argus respectively. Aranes knows very well how this lie was started by Stephen Wrottersley as a joke because I was given exclusive interviews, by Mfeketo something which they as, “Coloured” reporters had been failing to get before I arrived from Johannesburg in 1997/98. Ngoro knew nothing about Aranes' and Coloured politics against/or with the ANC. He was just a reporter doing his job. At that time the Cape Argus and its pub-licist Aranes didn't mind that the City needed to be transformed.
Now Aranes acts concerned in his article and wants to fight against transformation, but at the time of the ceremonial mayor it was the natural thing that Africans should be dominated by "Coloured and White comrades".
This is also what Aranes and his pay masters are angry with, and not just with Ngoro but with the very fact that Nomaindia Mfeketo has dared to turn the social engineering project of apartheid on its head thereby shocking all who believed that the results of social engineering couldn't be undone.
During the time of the ceremonial mayor Mfeketo couldn't move an inch without the say so of the white officials. She was in a bind and the Argus and pub-licist Aranes were happy.
You still remember Aranes, when I put out a story about the proposed name changes of of streets in Cape Town, in the CBD, some suburbs and NYs, a project the then ceremonial mayor Mfeketo was keen on and what happened? Peter Ter Horst and you can tell me together with whom went on to carefully put together a plan to have the story featured and what did Ter Horst do next- proceed take not the story apart but the proposal itself, using my article to discredit ANC proposals.
Tax and ratepayers money is better used elsewhere, like building houses instead of changing Native Yards into anything else the Argus argued.and now what? Building houses on the N2 is not going to benefit "Coloureds" but Xhosas from the Eastern Cape. What does the Independent News (Cape) want to say? Just mindless opposition.
There was also this story that Ashley Smith or/and Joseph Aranes had been promised a job in the executive mayor’s office, by whom I don’t know and when I came onto the scene it was “Ngoro has taken our job” and then it was extended to he was given “our” job because of an alleged affair.
I’m providing a context to the hatred which was produced and re-produced sold and resold to Coloured reporters by Joseph Aranes and Ashley Smith and when the Independent Newspapers (Cape) founded the rag Daily Voice they had a perfect place to make this false story carry weight. So first send in a black reporter to Blackman Ngoro, so Mylolisi Gophe was dispatched allegedly by David Briar but in fact by the Aranes who was doing the behind the scenes manipulation.
Aranes told me all these stories pretending to be the good guy while all the time he was feeding the newspapers with the hatred of an illiterate man. I told Gophe I would sue. The Weekend Argus stopped the story but obviously Aranes together with Gophe and Briar gave their information to the rag journalists, which is why my fight is with you Aranes, Briar, Gophe, the Argus and the rag.
The fact that Weekend Argus dropped the story from its pages though Aranes had already told me what the headline would be and on what page the story would be, how had he known all this. He claims the news diary was circulated by Briar. Does Briar always circulate the diary. When I tried to get hold of Briar and question him about these allegations he refused to see me saying he never meets "newsmakers". I thought to myself what a sorry excuse.
But Aranes and Smith were obviously unhappy that the story was dropped so in order that the story be published for them to report on it and not be sued directly they passed the story to the new rag, and the reporters of the comic newspaper had an exclusive.
Their brief was to destroy Nomaindia Mfeketo’s career as a politician through Blackman Ngoro so that could pave the way for a Coloured mayoral candidate. It didn't mater whether that candidate was ANC or Democratic Alliance. The biggest question Aranes wanted to ask Noaindia Mfeketo, for his handlers in the Democratic Alliance was is Nomaindia Mfeketo going to stand again as executive mayoral candidate? The answer to this question was central to the strategy which the Argus through Aranes would use to mudsling Mfeketo and her leadership of the city.
It was therefore important for Aranes to gather all the possible resources he could influence in the Independent Newspapers (Cape), first the Weekend Argus, the rag, then the Argus itself followed by the Cape Times. This way Mfeketo would be closed out and she would have no way out but down. This strategy didn't have much success until they dug into my website. This time they hit the jackpot. Using an insider in the executive mayor's office with dubious credentials the net was spread to all newspapers in the Cape including Afrikaans newspapers and television stations. So didn't the strategy work? They underestimated Mfeketo's resolve.
This thinking to destroy Mfeketo is all very clear in the story under analysis and in fact Aranes uses some of the text from the original story in order to make his attack on Nomaindia Mfeketo go deep.
Aranes writes “you really lost the plot”. What plot? Were we ever in agreement about the roadmap to anywhere, Aranes? You may have a plot as a political editor with some political parties but I don’t. Aranes writes “Your crude, misinformed and vile generalization” this was discounted in the Equality Court, so we don’t have to waste precious time analyzing this attempt at sticking a long literary knife into one.
Aranes goes on to use the words “bigotry” and “ racism” and tries to make it the responsibility of Ngoro to “ to re-open the much needed debate about race relations” . Why should such grave responsibility be placed on Ngoro’s shouldes? Ngoro didn’t close the debate about race relations in the Western Cape and Cape Town in the first place. Is that not the responsibility of the event-orientated Independent Newspapers who only remember the shelter when it starts pouring?
Why was anything Ngoro was writing intended to re-open any debate about anything? Further in his article Aranes dismisses Ngoro as someone from Zimbabwe, an outsider, so why the double standards? In the same breath Ngoro is supposed to solve the racial problem in the Western Cape and Cape Town and he is also not supposed to do that because he is an outsider!!! Aranes must make up his mind. You seem to think I controlled the power relations of the City of Cape Town. Let me tell you something Aranes, power is a construction. You must understand how power is "done". It is not something which you can base on numerical figures of one's race only, as you seem to do, Aranes. You must understand that something called the State is staring at you, like a big brother, whether you like it or not. But as you know very well even those who are the agents of state power also fall victim to the same.
The propensity for certain people to hide their short-comings behind what others do or set-out to do is common in the Western Cape. Its always other people’s fault, never theirs. Ngoro’s responsibility is that he is observant as any outsider should be about the race relations in a place. The “physical and psychological condition” Aranes refers to in the first sentence was not created by Ngoro. Aranes prefers to see the race relations in Cape Town and Western Cape in order set up by the apartheid system, which stressed first whites, then coloureds, then Africans. You can’t deny that this was what apartheid was about Aranes, no matter how much you and your propaganda mouthpiece will try. Whiles you might think that apartheid thinking organizes the chaos of reality for you, for me I tend to understand the ideological significance of seeing reality as chaotic though within structure. Otherwise how else can change come into the lives of the people?
It is not only absurd but intellectually infantile for Aranes to ignore apartheid and the social engineering that went with it and pin everything on Ngoro for political expediency. Or is it that you gave your leaders in the Democratic Alliance a go first at your article before you gave it to Ivan Flynn? Why the fear to point a fingure at apartheid for the”physical and psychological condition” in the Western Cape and Cape Town eh, Aranes?
Having spent many a drinking session with you over the past years where many of the coloured/African questions were raised and debated, it is indeed sad to have witnessed your own behaviour and how your at times rather rational arguments on the subject have been tainted by an arrogant and shallow understanding of Africanism.
The theme of contemptuous familiarity comes to the fore in this second sentence where Aranes bases his ability to “know” Ngoro not from a professional point of view but from spending “many a drinking session” with him. How can such writing, which is supposed to be factually plausible be reliable if all of it is based on what people do or say to each other in the pub? How can a whole political editor and a whole newspaper give weight to something that is said in a bar as being “reliable” enough to circulate to an intelligent public unless this is a carefully thought out mud-slinging strategy by the newspaper? Aranes, the pub-licist writes about “coloured/african” questions, “raised and debated” and in the same breath Aranes witnessed something “sad” in the behaviour of Ngoro and how Ngoro’ “at times” “rational arguments were tainted by arrogant and shallow understanding of Africanism”.
Phew! Why do you come across as tight-arsed in all this, Aranes? The sanctimoniousness with which you approach your subject is really unbelievable..
Your intention is to display the contempt of a prejudiced individual, whose will is to bring about the downfall of Ngoro at all costs. All these things you claim you observed in the bar. It seems to one all you did was observe Ngoro as you sat tight-lipped. A likely scenario! The pub-licist Aranes goes to great lengths to disparage Ngoro in order to make the mud-stick. Aranes doesn’t shy from the melodramatic. Indeed he excels in it. The first question which comes to the mind of any ational being is why did you bother to continue seeking the company of one whom you so disapproved of? The other question is how come you leave out what your own opinions might have been to this unfamiliar Ngoro you paint in your own words?
The other question is what was his response to these words of wisdom, dear political pub-licist? Your invective doesn’t leave you with much self-respect. Aranes talks about Africanism. Truthfully I have never heard the man utter this word through his mouth before. In truth I no not if he knows how to pronounce it, perhaps just to write it. For he cannot know what the word means. If he did we would have read much more about it then the abrupt reference to it. What is Africanism, Aranes? Is it an ideology. You mention it with the dogmatism of the proletariate, no insult intended. Do you believe it can liberate you from oppression, from mental slavery? Do you understand that Africanism is an approach to the understanding of property relations not just in Cape Town of in the Western Cape but in the whole of Africa and the relationship between Africa and the colonial plunderers? Aranes is perhaps a prisoner of “false consciousness” about the truth of the social condition of the proletariate, Coloured or African.
He must be forgiven for this because all he seeks to do is to please his editorial bosses. His writing is in the classic sense of how the political economy formulation that the economic base determines the superstructure where everything he writes is determined by the expectation of his wages. The ideology of those who own the means of production or their agents also own the product and the ideology of the product must conform to the dictates of those who pay him or their agents. Since the media has become a business, and audiences/readers the market one cannot afford to upset them too much for fear they will turn to another publication, isn’t? So Aranes like the true mercenary, must earn his keep or forfeit his position like he was intent in making me lose mine.
Having spent many a drinking session with you over the past years where many of the coloured/African questions were raised and debated, it is indeed sad to have witnessed your own behaviour and how your at times rather rational arguments on the subject have been tainted by an arrogant and shallow understanding of Africanism.
The theme of contemptuous familiarity comes to the fore in this second sentence where Aranes bases his ability to “know” Ngoro not from a professional point of view but from spending “many a drinking session” with him. How can such writing, which is supposed to be factually plausible be reliable if all of it is based on what people do or say to each other in the pub? How can a whole political editor and a whole newspaper give weight to something that is said in a bar as being “reliable” enough to circulate to an intelligent public unless this is a carefully thought out mud-slinging strategy by the newspaper? Or is it that you don't respect your reading public at all? Aranes, the pub-licist writes about “coloured/african” questions, “raised and debated” and in the same breath Aranes witnessed something “sad” in the behaviour of Ngoro and how Ngoro’ “at times” “rational arguments were tainted by arrogant and shallow understanding of Africanism”.
Phew! Why do you come across as tight-arsed in all this, Aranes? Your intention is to display the contempt of a prejudiced individual, whose will is to bring about the downfall of Ngoro at all costs. All these things you claim you observed in the bar. It seems to one all you did was observe Ngoro as you sat tight-lipped. A likely scenario! The pub-licist Aranes goes to great lengths to disparage Ngoro in order to make the mud-stick. Aranes doesn’t shy from the melodramatic. Indeed he excels in it. The first question which comes to the mind of any rational being is why did you bother to continue seeking the company of one whom you so disapproved of? The other question is how come you leave out what your own opinions might have been to this unfamiliar Ngoro you paint in your own words? The other question is what was his response to those words of wisdom, dear political pub-licist? Your invective doesn’t leave you with much self-respect. Aranes talks about Africanism. Truthfully I have never heard the man utter this word through his mouth before.
In truth I know not if he knows how to pronounce it, perhaps just to write it. For he cannot know what the word means. If he did we would have read much more about it then the abrupt reference to it. What is Africanism, Aranes? Is it an ideology. You mention it with the dogmatism of the proletariate, no insult intended. Do you believe it can liberate you from oppression, from mental slavery? Do you understand that Africanism is an approach to the understanding of property relations not just in Cape Town of in the Western Cape but in the whole of Africa and the relationship between Africa and the colonial plunderers? Aranes is perhaps a prisoner of “false consciousness” about the truth of the social condition of the proletariate, Coloured or African.
He must be forgiven for this because all he seeks to do is to please his editorial bosses. His writing is in the classic sense of how the economic base determines the superstructure where everything he writes is determined by those who pay his wages. The ideology of those who own the means of production also own the product and the ideology of the product must conform to the dictates of those who pay him. Since the media has become a business, and audiences/readers the market one cannot afford to upset them too much for fear they will turn to another publication, isn’t? So Aranes like the true mercenary, must earn his keep or forfeit his position like he was intent in making me lose mine.
But then again you are operating in a political environment where this position holds sway. You are correct in one aspect of your assessment of the race discourse in the province and the city -that the apartheid regime's social engineering process was a relative success which resulted in all of us, whites, blacks and coloureds (all African by the way) harbouring racist tendencies - for the rest your generalisations are nothing more than a racist diatribe.
In this paragraph Aranes displays the contemptuous familiarity he is now practiced in. In order for me to provide a context to this invective I must refer to what Aranes who had resorted to all sorts of gimmicks to try to get to trap the executive mayor Mfeketo,into giving him ammunition to fight her in an interview.
During the time I was employed in the executive mayor’s office Aranes tried all the time, to get me to convince the executive mayor to grant the Cape Argus an interview whose information they would have used to attack her with again and again in the future. Aranes argued that he and his newspaper were privy to information from disgruntled elements in the city that would sink the mayor if she didn’t talk to his newspaper. He tried all sorts of tricks, threats, bribes, and downright lies to try and be a useful tool for his newspaper but to no avail.
Having failed in his desired goal they changed tactics and turned around preferring to attack her and bring her integrity to disrepute. This the Argus through its pub-licist Aranes thought would have the desired effect. So the paragraph under analysis shows that what Aranes alleges is what was in his head. Aranes writes that Ngoro operated in an “environment” where arrogance holds sway, where there is no regard for Africanism, whatever he understands by that. Aranes has his head buried in the sand like that of an ostrich and his words are muffled by the sand that catches up in his nostrils and throat as he lies his way through his article. He however acknowledges that he is driven by racism in his writing: “You are correct in one aspect of your assessment of the race discourse in the province and the city-that the apartheid regime’s social engineering process was a relative success which resulted in all of us, whites, blacks and coloureds….harbouring racist tendencies” Speak for yourself Aranes, and I have no doubt here you speak for yourself. In truth the last phrase in this paragraph, “-for the rest your generalizations are nothing more than a racist diatribe. Well lets see where our pub-licist is taking his argument.
It is unfortunate that while the country, province and city is coming to terms and putting mechanisms in place to effectively deal with the purposeful neglect and deprivation suffered by the majority of people in this country during those dark years of oppression, you insist on wanting to belittle a group of people who was just as committed to fighting colonialism and apartheid. In fact people like Basil February, a"coloured" ANC cadre from the West Coast, spilled his blood and sacrificed his life on Zimbabwean soil - your birth place - in the fight against colonial and racial oppression.
There is confusion in Aranes as he trips on his own invective. He wants change but he can’t get over the status quo or the privileges of a bygone era, whatever they were. He feigns empathy with the dispossessed, the under-privilehged, the exploited, the homeless the discriminated and talks about belittling a group of people. Be brings in an irrelevant point about one called Basil February whom Aranes says “sacrificed his life on Zimbabwean” soil in his anti-apartheid struggle not in his anti-Smith struggles.
Aranes, many gallant sons of South Africa perished on Zimbabwean soil in their fight against apartheid, so I don’t get your point here. What has the fact that it is Ngoro’s birth place got to do with anything? If it wasn’t my birthplace would he still have died there? You see, there is no point you are making other than to draw attention to re-production of xenophobia which you are now an expert in to the extent that you have managed to spread it throughout your “Coloured and White comrades” against Ngoro.
Your attempts to rewrite the history of a group of people who are also fighting for the limited state resources that are available to the marginalised in our society are pathetic and have done more than to turn ordinary, honest coloured folk away from the ANC and their quest to hang on to power in the upcoming local government elections.
I wonder where your presence of mind was when you penned this invective and where your quality contrololers in the newsroom were. Where and how did Ngoro attempt to re-write the history of anyone in the Western Cape? It’s a pathetic show you put up Aranes. In the thrill of the whole misadventure to belittle Ngoro nobody noticed what utter nonsense escaped your pen to paper. Aranes makes it sound like a game that if a group of people have been oppressed, exploited and under-privileged they cut their noses to spite their faces simply because someone has said something they dislike. The fact that you, Aranes have cut your nose to spite your face is not applicable to every coloured person as you seem to think.
The ANC is not trying to hang on to power but is trying to change the reality of the same people whom you want to see cut their noses to spite their faces by turning away from the ANC. After that you and whoever else would have followed your example will become cynics and then bitter until point of no return. What then? Grow up and be strong mentally.
As a special media and political advisor to Cape Town mayor Normaindia Mfeketo, you hold quite an influential and important position in the governance of the city and are privy to "deep political discussions" with your principals.
Now we come to the real bone of contention, the job which both Aranes Smith imagines was theirs even when I wasn’t on the scene. You are a liar Aranes and your statements are defamatory as you present them as if they were fact when in fact you are expressing opinion. I never held an “influential and important position in the governance of the city” and was never privy to any “deep political discussions” as you allege. Even if you are writing in a column, you are supposed to respect facts. This make believe world you live in makes me wonder what kind of people asked you to act in the capacity you are in at the moment. What is your qualification for it?
Cynicism? I was never a member of the mayoral committee and members of the faction to which you are close which stole information of personal nature from my office which you and Smith later gave to various people including that comic strip, exagarated my importance to you.
Or perhaps like Africanism you don’t understand what governance is all about. I really wish you could do yourself a favour and seek further study in order to equip yourself with more than calling people like Ngoro “black bastards”.
In all fairness your comments and lack of clear political analysis must therefore be juxtaposed in the broader political landscape of the Western Cape of today.
You say in “all fairness” to whom, and you indulge yourself with having a “clear political analysis” of what Aranes? Where did you get it? And when you talk about “broader political landscape of the Western Cape of today” how come you don’t do it? There is no juxtaposing of the comments by Ngoro to any “broader political landscape” in your article or did you lforget it in the beer glass?
Knowing you for so many years I'm certain that your crude "analysis" of the situation on the ground was formulated in discussions with your political masters and your inability to grasp the complex and confusing nature of Western Cape politics, and particularly that of the "coloureds".
I don’t know you Aranes, at all. When you were telling me about how Pagad would tell you whom they were going to “take out” back then and I asked you why you didn’t put that on the news diary that’s when I started knowing what kind of a journalist you were, not what kind of a person you Aranes were. As a journalist you lack courage and commitment.
I don’t confuse the two issues like you, person and professionalism. I will stick to your professionalism or lack of it but will not be involved in whom I think you are so that I can fool readers into thinking I know you personally. No I don’t. So save your breath.
But your offering provides a wonderful insight into the manner in which the mayor and her executive and senior officials are currently restructuring staff at the council and the recent ANC provincial conference. The recent appointment of the most senior staff in the city under the watchful eye of the mayor brings one nearer to your message.
As I said earlier the fact that you and your masters at the Cape Argus and the Democratic Alliance are angry becauseNomaindia Mfeketo as the executive mayor did whatwas least expected, that is transform the city employee structure, you can’t get over it. It is a lie that coloureds are in any way marginalized. What escapes you Aranes is that government is not the only place where Coloureds are employed. Take you work place as a good example, how many Africans who look like me ie the colour of my skin are in any position of note, editorially and administratively? If you were to be honest how many do you see being in such positions in the next five years. None. So what are you moaning about?
Ngoro didn’t appoint any one in the City to assume any position in the administration. Abusing what he wrote in order to fight with the ANC and Nomaindia Mfeketo shows what a small mind Aranes has. I don’t mean small in terms of size but in terms of world view about delegation of powers under the executive mayoral system. You would do well to acquaint yourself with it if you want to fight Nomaindia Mfeketo from an informed point of view.
While there is a general belief, based on a sound political understanding of the staffing complexities at the council, that the organisation needs to be transformed to reflect the demographics and to correct the historical imbalances, the marginalisation of "coloured" employees is of concern.
Refer to the paragraph above.
Just as disconcerting is that most of the new appointees are people from outside the province and country, including you, Roderick.
Xenophobe. What has being an outsider got to do with performance? I note how you discursively construct a discriminatory hierarchy of outsiders and foreigners such as myself around the feature of skin colour-strictly speaking around the visible dominancy (coloured) from those outsiders from the province and South Africa. In the context of this paragraph and the one before the attribute "coloured" has an intensifying function. It helps Aranes, who wants to emotionalize, to carry his coloured and outsider/foreigner discourse to extremes in a literal sense as well. He wants these people denied privileges yet there must surely be coloureds from the Western Cape all over South Africa and elsewhere? Should they be victimised? Aranes seems to construct the greatest possible visual difference between Coloureds and those from outside the province and South Africa. His utterance can thus be seen as an example of "differentialist racism" in its literal sense. Aranes relies on the speech that coloureds are marginalized and that those South Africans from outside the province including "Roderick" who gets special mention take away working places for coloureds, the in-group. This become all very clear in the paragraph below where Aranes' racism dwells on the issue of identity and he wonders what identity coloureds are and if that is why they are marginalized. It is a pathetic argument which is not substantiated by any facts.
Do we not have qualified people in this province and city to fill these positions or is it that "coloureds" are not regarded as black/African and therefore not eligible to fill these jobs. What about the people in posts that are now being sidelined by this "transformation" process and the uncertain future they now face?
This is for you to find out and not for me to answer because as I told you I never had anything to do with people who were appointed and your insinuation of it was based on sensationalism and the prospect of hitting me where it hurts most. Get out of ivory towers and go and find out, but then again you were never that type of a journalist. I forget.
Why do you ask me about those faceless people affected by transformation when I have myself and my son and wife to think after being affected by your own racism? You feign concern for faceless people when you show such hysteria against one whom you claim to know so well. Is it because like you say, I'm just a "black bastard" and the others are "Coloured and White" comrades"?
This deliberate side-lining of long-serving and dedicated "coloured and white" comrades in the city's restructuring process is further brought into perspective by your article. So too is the deafening silence of the newly elected provincial leadership of the ANC and senior "coloured" politicians.
Joseph Aranes your article is so repetitious it is a big yawn. You have abused me from both a xenophobic and racist angle. I find your analysis to be devoid of any meaningful engagement with the facts of reality and of the text in your question and would advise that you try to be informed before tackling complex questions. If you were my student on the writing of opinion pieces I would have given you three out of ten because all you did was ride the wave of the stampede and the so-called debate on the Coloured/African condition brought about by my article and you yourself did nothing further. No research except of you say sitting at the World of Coffees constitute research then I guess that’s why you deserve three out of ten.
The last sentence in this last paragraph shows how for Aranes the ANC is a party for, "black bastards" and the Democratic Alliance for which he "works" for represents a party for "Coloured and white comrades". Thats how simple his writing is.
After everything has died all that remains is Ebrahim Rasool's home for all isn't it and the debate now lies conveniently under the bed until some other observer brings up the dust and be trampled on by the intolerant, like that, just like that and onward march into the future.
