In her answer to a question by a Rapport journalist on naming the people she does not like Annelie Botes responded “I am now going to be terribly honest. And let it shock this country. I do not like black people. I don't understand them ... I know they are people like me, I know they have the same rights as me. But I do not understand them. And then ... I don't like them. I avoid them, because I am afraid of them”. It is in the honesty of the answer Annelie gave that has made her become a focus of scorn, and interestingly, outside the context of the racially polarised firmament that instructs all manner of discourse in this country. We have once again chosen to see in her comment our past, whilst going past our present. If diversity is a keynote of social condition and opinion, it is therefore becoming increasingly dangerous for us as a nation to create a context of analysing the response of Ms Botes outside our various elements of this keynote. In her response it is clear tha...
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