Sent
to "The Star, Johannesburg", Thu 21/05/2009 08:51, never published.
One wonders why The Star continues to publish Christine
Qunta, such as the leader page article in of 20 May. Is The Star out to reduce its credibility? Perhaps you have to have a quota of loonies? Maybe it is a way to discredit the ANC. Or perhaps she keeps the Readers' Letters well
stocked?
Ms Qunta is unmoved by facts, ignoring inconvenient
ones in favour of her fantasy. Perhaps a
world view based on merit is so anathema to one of her talents that it cannot
be tolerated?
The DA policy is that of free choice: Unlike in the
ANC that dictates, DA people have choice about whether they stand for the
Province or Parliament. It's not Helen
Zille's fault that most DA women chose to go to Parliament. (Note that the ANC has nothing to say about
the number of women the DA has in Parliament)
Ms Qunta drones on about Helen Zille "surrounding
herself with men" in the Provincial Cabinet, but did she do this as Mayor
of Cape Town? Obviously not, since Ms
Qunta doesn't mention it, and inconvenient facts are to be ignored.
It must be sad to view the world, as Ms Qunta does,
through a racist lens: The truth is that all races voted for the DA –its voters
are probably the most racially-mixed of all the parties'– but Qunta can only
see the whites.
We have the DA's "Stop Zuma" campaign
painted as "Swart Gevaar". So
anyone who is anti-Zuma is anti-black? What nonsense! Many intelligent black people don't want a
president who is an unapologetic adulterer and willing to expose his wives to
AIDS.
Ms Qunta finds Helen Zille and Julius Malema's exchange
as "equally offensive rantings".
Zille's comments were factual, the ANCYL's a complete fabrication (which
I look forward to seeing them justify in court). Facts from an opponent carry the same weight
in Ms Qunta's mind as fantasy by a colleague.
Despite fighting against it, the DA's members are
somehow responsible for Apartheid, per Ms Qunta. She is of course silent on Martinus van
Schalkwyk and the party to which he now belongs!
Ms Qunta has the DA "portraying Africans as
corrupt and incompetent people with poor sexual morals". No, Ms Qunta, Zuma is NOT "all Africans". Kindly remember that Helen Zille is also an
African, by virtue of being a South African.
If Ms Qunta want to eliminate "crude
racism", she can do no better than start with her own thoughts. The ANC is not the sole representative of
blacks. Anti-ANC is not anti-black: It's a concept called "democracy".
Finally though, do spare some sympathy for Ms Qunta:
Judged on the quality of her logic, the only way she can get a job is through
cronyism and gender quotas.
