False utterance aids hate speech

DEAR Bheki Cele, you sounded like Malema’s twin shadow when you called the multi-racial Phoenix residents racist.

Your utterances exposed your ignorance of Phoenix’s multi-racial relationship with our neighbours, including Bambayi, Zwelitsha, Amaoti, Ntuzuma and Kwamashu.

Did you know that the Phoenix community, medical practitioners, NGOS, religious organisations, schools and businesses are responsible for providing jobs, food, charity, medical help, excellent education, etc, to thousands of our neighbours who live in poverty?

Yet looters from the same areas were allegedly instructed by a third force to loot, burn, and kill like during the 1949 and 1985 riots.

You are out of touch with the poorest of the poor who voted you to the top, Comrade Cele.

You should resign before civil society demands that Parliament kicks you out of your position. Remember civil society is more powerful than all political parties put together and the government.

Phoenix as part of civil society has proved to the world that during this violent, racist unrest it used its united power where the plan to destabilise South Africa failed, hence President Ramaphosa is still in his position to lead our rainbow nation.

Do you know that your irresponsible and false utterance that Phoenix residents are racist is promoting more hate speech?

Do you understand that as a minister of police you failed to protect the police, who have families and loved ones, against the thousands of violent looters?

It disappoints and hurts me as an ANC member to think that when I was a youth and a local government councillor you were a respectable political leader with zero racism in your blood.

What happened, Comrade Cele? ASHNIE BISOONPERSAD | Phoenix