SOUTH AFRICA has a constitution whose preamble asserts that we are a non-racial country. Unfortunately our government believes otherwise. The ANC conveniently terms itself a non-racial party, but then myopically discriminates against persons on the basis that Africans can only be from one exclusive group, the so-called ‘Bantu-people’.
In the racialised prism of our education department, an indigenous Khoi or San, is not considered a Human Being. The Glen Snyman story is no different from the Kobus Faasen story, read here.
Snyman, a teacher at Grootkraal Primary School in Oudtshoorn, the founder of ‘People Against Race Classification’ self-identifies as African, the result has been a reactionary backlash from a clearly racist education department.
Given the corruption endemic to our nation, the racist and petty apartheid views of the Department are likely to be upheld by an equally racist judiciary, one infiltrated by organised crime, according to police chief Bheki Cele.
Even though my family have lived in this country for generations, we are considered Non-African as in Non-European, a term taken from an apartheid text book, read Lord Musi, quit calling yourself a judge. The request to a citizen for ‘evidence of African-ness’ is beneath contempt. What next a determination that Snyman is not South African and ergo he should forfeit citizenship?
It was Adolf Hitler who introduced the distinction between Aryan and non-Aryan, and likewise Hendrik Verwoerd who pursued a world view separating people into European and Non-European categories
There is no piece of legislation to my knowledge categorising persons according to the defunct ideology of race — the apartheid Population Registration Act for instance was abolished in 1991 –yet petty apartheid remains. According to Denise Coetsee, an HR professional quoted in the Citizen “there are currently no fixed set of rules for race classification”, which is “largely based on the verbal confirmation of the person claiming to form part of a specific racial group”.
In 2010, a corrupt ANC official by the name of Halton Cheadle, presided over a legal matter involving his own client and business partner. A matter in which I was not represented and restrained from calling witnesses. You can read the proceedings of the case here.
The resulting crack-pot decision under the racist Western Cape division, proceeds to upbraid my identity for asserting that ‘I am a person of Colour’ a Bantu, and denying apartheid race classification. Coloured is not an identity per se, it is the term that was given me when I was banned and sectioned under the Group Areas Act.
Read my story “Living in the Heart of Kakness” or watch a video preview.
A 1999 Constitutional Court decision (President of the Republic of South Africa and Others v South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) and Others) regarding a recusal matter brought by one Louis Luyt, seemingly paved the way for judges to remain ANC party members whilst holding office. Notably the test for ‘reasonable apprehension of bias’ was moved away from that of the ordinary citizen or ‘reasonable person’ to that of the purview of what juristocrats or legal professionals might consider reasonable.
Therefore, when addressing these allegations, we must not only address the ‘multiracial’ fraud being perpetrated by the ANC and its officials in the Dept of Education, but also the abject failure of our courts and judiciary to uphold the very basis for the Republic’s legal dispensation, namely the Preamble to the Constitution.