3/1/2023 0 Comments Dirt 5 s a b cThe argument that I have heard repeatedly over the past few weeks, therefore, that “there is no place for race-based organisations in a democratic South Africa”, is nonsense. The latter attitude serves only to entrench white privilege. Black lawyers, for example, argue that the entrenchment of white networks and white perspectives in the legal fraternity and in the judiciary makes it necessary for black legal professionals to organise as blacks.Īnyone who believes that such “race-based” organising has no place in the “new South Africa” either has no clue, at best, about what apartheid did to black people or, at worst, wants to ignore the persistent aspects of apartheid and move on as if life really has substantially changed for black people. ![]() There are often very good reasons for organising in these ways, particularly for black people. This is becoming a tired line but it requires repetition: people in South Africa do have the constitutional right to organise along various lines - including “racial” lines. No doubt the SAHRC public meeting will raise new issues that will revive the debate and emotion. Since the debate about the (re)launch of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) refuses to die and since it will be given new life on Wednesday at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), I thought I would add my own little bit of noise into the cacophony that already exists.
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