ASHNIE BISOONPERSAD | Woodview DEAR Comrade Bheki Cele. Is Julius Malema your boss? You sounded like Malema’s twin shadow when you called the multi-racial Phoenix residents racist.
Your utterance exposed your ignorance of the Phoenix’s multi-racial relationship with our neighbours, this includes Bhambayi, Zwelisha, Amaoti, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu.
Did you know that the Phoenix community, medical practitioners, NGOs, religious organisations, schools and businesses are responsible for providing jobs, food, charity, medical help and excellent education to thousands of our neighbours that live in poverty?
Yet looters from the same areas looted, burnt, killed and raped specifically Indians like during the 1949 and 1985 riots. Did you expect the Phoenix community from previous experiences that paralysed them with shock not to defend themselves, especially when you, the minister, failed…