OPINION FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Voting means looking at the past & the future SAElections2019
Decisions about who to vote for, or even against, are usually based on the record of the past and some anticipation of the future.
As we craft the future, we must learn from the past. One of the things we need to learn from the past is to avoid creating martyrs and heroes of those who do not rightfully deserve the attention and accolades. I do not agree the party slogan of Mngxitama’s BLF - ‘Land or Death’ - constitutes hate speech, as the Equality Court found this week. There are infinite ways of understanding the slogan without assuming that it means “killing someone”.
The only beneficiaries of such a court decision is the BLF itself. They now have a reason, and to them ‘proof’, that the statea aided the FF Plus, a party founded by apartheid era generals such as Constand Viljoen and has as its stated aims, the creation of a “Boer homeland” or Volkstaat. Still, we do not need to like what they stand for, but we must allow them the space to canvass their ideas and seek electoral support.
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