The scarcity of logic in a world of binaries
When former Caucus Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Gauteng Legislature, Makashule Gana, resigned – it was with lightning speed, synonymous with detractors of the DA, that this was all to do with the colour of his skin and nothing to do with his autonomy as individual, free to associate with whomever he so pleases.
Don’t take my word for it – to quote Gana:
“I leave the DA with a clear conscious, no regrets, and cemented sense of purpose and calling to serve the country. I am grateful to my colleagues – activists, members, staff and public representatives – with whom I shared two decades of hard yet fulfilling work. I wish them well in the future.”
This honest account of Gana’s feeling towards the DA – his own words, will however not suffice for those who have a false narrative they must peddle.
According to Cadre Mzi Khumalo of the ANC Chief Whips Office in the Gauteng Legislature, issuing a statement on Gana’s resignation had this to say:
“The haemorrhaging of black leaders from the DA and its positioning as a centre right party confirms that it protects white privilege and practices tokenism on black leadership.”
If you freely associate with the DA and your skin is of a darker hue, you forgo your autonomy, your individuality, and are reduced to a mere token.
It is hard to marry the idea of a “black leader” in the DA with the notion that if you’re black and in the DA you are but a token. I did not know tokens could lead?
But this is ANC logic, it moves backwards.
Cretinous thought processes and arguments devoid of substance are a speciality of the ANC.
Chapter 2: Bill of Rights, particularly Section 19 (1), protects the freedom of individuals to make political choices.
It does not state that choices outside the ANC paradigm diminish autonomy or in fact produce tokens. Those tokens who know this are in ANC-speak, “clever blacks” while their pale counterparts “masters” are simply racists.
As time passes, and the ANC becomes more irrelevant, its antipathy towards ordinary South Africans has become more apparent.
It frequently vilifies speakers of one of the country’s official languages on a regular basis, Afrikaans (Gauteng Chairperson, Panyaza Lesufi, is its champion in this crusade – from suing interest groups to introducing exclusionary legislation, his fetish for this cause (sic) knows no bounds), it rebukes accountability – as is highlighted by keeping the poorest of the poor in squalor as public funds for projects aimed at uplifting them are pilfered and looted with zeal.
Instead of worrying about the state of the nation and the socio-economic collapse it has foisted upon us, it navel gazes and pontificates about into which boxes people of certain skin colours and languages must be stuffed in line with its self-styled pencil test.
It is imperative that citizens exercise logical fortitude in the face of this binary, self-serving narrative.
Failure to do so will rob us of our dignity, as they have done so to people like Gana - stripped of autonomy and individualism: denigrated and roasted on the pyre of the witless.
