Yahoo! Groups : praag Messages : Message 18911 of 18911: "Last year I was relieved of my duties as a columnist at Rapport because I claimed that the excessive violence of the Rawstorne killings indicated a racial motivation. It gives me no satisfaction to say that I have been vindicated by William Kekana's courtroom confession, 'We did everything we did because they were white.'
The Star's courage in putting this phrase prominently on the front page is exemplary. This is what journalism should be all about: exposing the diseases in society to the blinding light of public attention and debate.
Does William Kekana represent a simple criminal or just one of a number of genocidaires, to use the term from Rwanda, who are already operating in South Africa? My own suspicion is that South Africa might be sliding into low-intensity genocide, if we also take into account the farm killings that are mainly directed at one specific ethnic group, i.e. white Afrikaner farmers.
During the Rwandan genocide, a radio station known as 'Radio-television des mille collines' incited the Hutu population to go out and kill the Tutsi 'cockroaches'. The intensity and content of the propaganda might be different, but since the ANC takeover in 1994 a constant stream of exaggerated information about apartheid, as well as the congenital evil of 'the whites', have been broadcast by the SABC and published in newspapers with a black readership.
In justifying his actions, Kekana claimed that he had killed three defenceless people, including a baby girl, 'because of apartheid'. Judge Monica Leeuw did not take this seriously, but perhaps we should. In his mind, whites 'owe' him and therefore he is not only justified in robbing them, but also in exacting the most horrific retribution in the form of rape, murder and infanti"
Would love to hear Terri's opinion on this!
I think Kekana blamed 'apartheid' as it is an easy scapegoat to be exploited until the cows comes home. Similar to 'the devil made me do it' plea.
But since I am a biased bystander (I am not too fond of Dan Roodt's - the writer - ideas on White Nationalism and his constant propoganda towards the volkstaat ideology, and his adoration of HF Verwoerd) I would like to hear other (meaning not white Afrikaner) opinions.