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
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.
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