OPINION: The South African Minority Rights Equality Movement (Samrem) run by Ashin Singh serves only to undo all efforts to promote nation-building in our country, says Dennis Pather.
In my more than three score years and 10, I have been referred to as black, non-white, Indian, Asiatic, a charou and, quite derogatively, a few times as a coolie. But not once was I called a minority. A plain and simple “South African” will do just fine for me, thank you.
Intrigued by Du Bois’s question, Prashad decided to turn it on its head by asking Asians in the US: How does it feel to be a solution? The organisation is called the South African Minority Rights Equality Movement , run by a local magistrate, Ashin Singh. It pretends to be fighting for the rights of Indians and other so-called minority communities who, he claims, are being “oppressed” by the ANC government.
To propagate such Aryan-like myths is no different to what the architects of apartheid, like Hendrik Verwoerd and John Vorster, did to hold onto white minority rule for so long.
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