There was a time when Markus Jooste would have gotten away with things because of his place in society, a privileged white man.
Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposure and experience in global political economic affairs. He was educated at the London School of Economics, and holds a PhD in International Political Economy.
. Such claims are terribly Nietzschean. It was he who conceived of suicide, or “voluntary death”, as courageous, laudable and deserving of reverence… In the case of Jooste, it is difficult to sustain the idea that suicide was a consequence of meaninglessness.. Life is invariably a result of accident or chance, after that, drawing on our own resources , we give it meaning. Until he killed himself, Jooste’s life had meaning.
I have never ascribed to the belief that one should not speak ill of the dead. There are some among the dead of whom nothing remains but their legacies of cruelty, venality and the legatees of their worst acts of inhumanity — and in Jooste’s case, the greed remains. For most of the apartheid era, the wealth of Jooste and his former billionaire and millionaire colleagues did not fall from the sky from about 27 April 1994. It was all accumulated through “a very powerful sense of fellowship, solidarity and commitment… … intense comradeship”.one gets a sense of the centrality of Stellenbosch in the Jooste saga.
It should be said that there are Afrikaners who have embraced the changes that came after 1990, and who did not cling to the vertically segmented privileges that guaranteed or promised immense wealth in a democratic future. Jooste was abandoned. There was no longer the protection of apartheid, of white privilege. That system was kept alive by “old boys’ networks” ; as a system, it was no longer available to Jooste. Apartheid finally ended for Jooste.
In any society, when bad things are done by one group to another, the are actives who do the deeds and passive agents, the onlookers and enablers. Some people just become overwhelmed and powerless. Some very brave rise up in defence or support of the underdogs, risking rebuke from their own. Like many other readers and supporters I am on the point of moving away from DM reading something like this that do not build our nation but actually trying to destroy all the growth of the last 30 years. Ismael I have no other conclusion, you are a destructive thinker and your way of interpretation of the Jooste case is based on hate and not on any balanced view of the case.
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