OPINION | The Brand family were unfortunate casualties in a war transcendent of race. A war to be expected in a country of such vast disparities, where the richest 10% own 86% of the country’s wealth, writes Phakamisa Mayaba
Yet one must also wonder, precisely because they were white farmers, whether their murders were not always doomed to meet a yawningly familiar South African reaction.
Hate and paranoia denied them the respectful last rites duly owed to the deceased by, at the very least, putting them at the centre of their own misfortune.But even in death, their spirits seemed subjected to questionable ends by racists masquerading as aggrieved mourners.Dianne Kohler Barnard Few, if any, of them will carry placards outside court when some serial rapist or murderer is due to take the stand.
Armed with such racial messages, these groups’ leaders – Ernst Roets and Simon Roche, respectively – had the ear of some solid alt-right and far-right figures around 2017 and 2018 in the US. To further demonstrate his disdain, Dutton went as far as hinting that ours couldn’t be a civilised country.When he heard the fabrication, his mind drew a conclusion no different from those who saw the Brand case as nothing but “them” coming after “us”.Though academics might make it look complicated, in practice it’s quite easy to see.
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