Mbeki, a racist on crime
- This column was first published in South African business magazine Maverick, on 19 April 2007. Click here to subscribe to it the way it was meant to be read.
Thabo Mbeki is quite right about the white right. But he’s wrong about people who complain about crime. Mbeki’s latest theorising reveals his own racist prejudices, and deeply offends victims of crime.
I wasn’t going to write about it, but Thabo Mbeki changed my mind.
Unlike David Bullard or Jeff Koinange, I enjoy the (dubious) luxury of relative obscurity. So two months ago, when armed intruders held a knife to my throat, tied me up, and cleaned me out, I could choose whether to keep it private or go public.
