"It is certainly ironic that the editor of City Press intends suing Mr. Eric Miyeni for libel when the entire Naspers group, to which City Press belongs, has for a long time specialised in vilifying and heaping calumny on especially Afrikaner dissidents critical of the corrupt and violent dystopia that South Africa has become," said Dr. Dan Roodt, leader of PRAAG.
Roodt castigated the South African media for what he terms "their natural instinct for propaganda, half-truths and conceptual smuttiness". PRAAG feels that local media have always been either in the pocket of the mining houses or the British Empire or some exterior force or power. "That is why at various critical moments in the past, the South African media could romanticise ANC terror and the necklacing of civilians, but now react with shocked dismay at the use of a necklace metaphor about one of their own," Roodt said. "The SA media's adulation for Winnie Mandela and her statement that the country would be liberated through the use of matches, petrol and the infamous necklace, is certainly at odds with their sudden concern over so-called 'hate speech'. When Nelson Mandela called for killing all whites in front of the hammer and sickle, it was considered an expression of reconciliation and tolerance by the hacks in front of their computer screens. Why then pick on Eric Miyeni? Or has liberation gone out of fashion?"
PRAAG called on the Naspers group and City Press to cease their hypocrisy and allow columnists to speak their mind. "What Mr. Eric Miyeni said, is less extreme in its consequences than Naspers's almost genocidal propaganda campaign against the Afrikaner, calling for the disappearance or assimilation of an entire nation in the name of a racial obsession based on colouredness rather than blackness. City Press and its monopolistic owner's campaign against Miyeni are merely a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Or coloured."
Dr. Roodt has often been smeared by various Naspers columnists and letter writers, accusing him of being "a Hitler" for his defense of literary Afrikaans and calling him a "racist" for pointing out the high crime rate among young males of certain ethnic groups in South Africa. Also, he has "dared to criticise the Goebbels of Naspers, Dr. Leopold Scholtz, who has consistently been calling for the biological assimilation of Afrikaners by coloureds, in a programme of racial eugenics apparently espoused by the multinational media group".
"My advice to Ferial Haffajee is, to paraphrase Sylvia Plath, every woman loves a terrorist, at least in South Africa. You have made your bed, now lie in it," Roodt said.
PRAAG would rather that opinions like those Eric Miyeni be heard than be suppressed. "If Naspers may hate the Afrikaner and vilify us on a daily basis, why may Mr. Miyeni not dislike the proverbial white capitalists and their pseudo-black lackeys?" the organisation asked.
Editor's note: The original column by Eric Miyeni has been removed from The Sowetan's website where it was first published. As background to the above story and in defence of free speech, we republish it here:
Haffajee does it for white masters
Eric Miyeni
JULIUS Malema must never answer a Ferial Haffajee. Who the devil is she anyway if not a black snake in the grass, deployed by white capital to sow discord among blacks?
In the 80s she'd probably have had a burning tyre around her neck. We know where she comes from. She was groomed by The Mail & Guardian, the same newspaper that produces the Jacob Dlaminis of this world, black people who say it was nice to live in the townships under apartheid.
And today we must believe that Haffajee's utter hatred of ANC politicians is based on journalistic integrity. Quadruple crap. I am more inclined to think that people like Haffajjee, who edits City Press, are most likely to be the kind that wakes up in the morning, sees their black faces in the mirror only to feel a wave of self-hatred rising up to nauseate them.
Who's this mystery businessman that apparently paid R200 000 into Malema's family trust? Which government tender did Malema grant him and how?
Can we be sure that City Press did not manufacture these facts? If it didn't, how do we know it did not break the law to obtain them and then twisted these "facts" to ruin Malema? We know that News Of The World was closed down in England because its journalists illegally hacked into people's private phones for news. Who's to say that Haffajee's City Press isn't doing the same?
And let's say Malema does have a family trust, that the trust is funded by black businesspeople and that these businesspeople made their fortune through government tenders. What the hell is wrong with all that?
It's clear to everybody that white South African business is locking black people out. The only real source of business for us is our government. Are we now being told that if we make money through government contracts, our only hope, we cannot use that money to help fellow black people who are in politics, who need private funding to function?
Where then should black politicians get financial support?
Trusts are legal entities. There is no legal limit to how much legally earned money can be put in them or by whom. If Malema has a family trust that is not in breach of any law, it is none of Haffajee's or anybody's business. The man is not a government official.
Mandela has trusts in his name, but because white people put money in them there are no Haffajee complaints. The white DA receives money largely from white business, which is the main economic beneficiary of the government's tender system.
The Haffajees of this racist world are not digging up any dirt on DA officials. Instead, they sickeningly presume that white fortune is legitimately earned until proven otherwise and that it's the opposite for black success.
To hell with Haffajee and her kind.
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