Mamparas of the week

This past week an online podcast hosted by Open chat Podcast hosted by Mthokozisi, Sonwabile, Lefa Hlalele, and Busisiwe Radebe, caused major upheaval in South Africa when the four hosts made derogatory remarks about coloured people in South Africa.  These remarks were racist, vile and totally uncalled for.  These insensitive remarks have left the coloured community and others in uproar, and various charges have been filed against the group. The group very quickly deleted the video, but not after it had been viewed more than 1.3 million times.  Unfortunately for the group, once something is out on the internet, it can always be shared, and in this case, this is exactly what happened.  I myself watched the video on Tik Tok where it was shared.

The group then issued a so-called apology, which was anything but an apology; they basically just justified what they said. Link below

Open chat so-called apology.  You decide

https://www.tiktok.com/@coloured24seve7/video/7535938897411444024?q=open%20chats%20podcast%20coloured%20chow%20cousin&t=1754649905938 

Instead of showing true remorse, this group have continued to be defiant on their show, angering the coloured community and other South Africans even more.

It is time for the government to make an example of these misfits who openly continue to be defiant, just like other racist people have appeared in court.  In 2018 a woman named Vicki Momberg was sentenced to three years in prison (one of which was suspended for three years) for her racist abuse of black police officers at a crime scene. These 4 misfits are all born frees (born after 1994 in a free and democratic society) and should have known better, having grown up in a democratic South Africa.

Personally, I hope that the courts throw the book at them and show them that racism has no place in a democratic South African society.  It is time that the courts take a zero-tolerance approach to racism.

Political Opportunism

Recently a number of news events have made the headlines in Cape Town.  One of the events that made headlines was the story of the junior soccer players at BT Football Academy who were left stranded in Portugal by the BT Football Academy owner. Thankfully after the intervention of a group called Colored Girls Rock  https://www.facebook.com/ColouredGirlsRock led by Tracey Lange, started fundraising, and the players were eventually able to return home to Cape Town after being abandoned by BT Academy.  

Sadly, however, instead of acknowledging the group's effort and congratulating them on taking the initiative, the Democratic Alliance (DA) put out the following statement. https://wc.da.org.za/2025/07/da-commends-wcgs-role-to-assist-stranded-soccer-players-in-portugal 

In its statement, the DA completely ignored mentioning the group (ColoredGirls Rock) by name, instead including the sentence, 'While there has already been private funding raised," thereby putting themselves forward as the saviours of the stranded players and coaches. Is this not cheap politics/electoneering, considering that South Africans will go to the polls next year in municipal elections and the DA is trying to stay in the limelight of the work that others have done?