Ferial Haffajee, redakteur van City Press, gaan Eric Miyeni dagvaar oor opmerkings wat hy Maandag in ‘n rubriek in die Sowetan gemaak het.
Die rubriek, ‘Haffajee does it for white masters’, is intussen van die Sowetan se webwerf afgehaal. In die rubriek beskuldig Miyeni vir Haffajee dat sy ‘n agent vir wit kapitaliste is. Haffajee ontmoet glo verteenwoordigers van die Amerikaanse ambassade op ‘n gereelde grondslag.
“Ek glo wat ek geskryf het in die rubriek,” sê die Sowetan se rubriekskrywer ná sy omstrede stuk.
“Ek het dit nie geskryf om myself afgedank te kry nie. Ek het geglo wat ek geskryf het,” het Miyeni aan eNews gesê, en bygevoeg: “Ek dink sy [Haffajee] is ‘n fantastiese mens as persoon.”
Miyeni sê die redakteurs by die Sowetan lees alles voor publikasie en dat hulle dae gehad het om seker te maak oor die stuk.
Die Sowetan het Miyeni se rubriek beëindig omdat hy “oor die lyn tussen robuuste debat en die kondonering van die geweld” getree het.
Haffajee het aan Beeld gesê die stuk het haar laat snik omdat dit haatspraak teen haar as persoon was. Max du Preez het Haffajee verdedig en Miyeni ook van haatspraak beskuldig.
Miyeni het in sy rubriek die metafoor gebruik dat Haffajee in die tagtigs “waarskynlik ‘n brandende band om haar nek sou gehad het”.
Hieronder is die gewraakte stuk wat intussen verwyder is:
JULIUS Malema must never answer a Ferial Haffajee. Who the devil is she anyway if not a black snake in the grass, deployed by white capital to sow discord among blacks?
In the 80s she’d probably have had a burning tyre around her neck. We know where she comes from. She was groomed by The Mail & Guardian, the same newspaper that produces the Jacob Dlaminis of this world, black people who say it was nice to live in the townships under apartheid.
And today we must believe that Haffajee’s utter hatred of ANC politicians is based on journalistic integrity. Quadruple crap. I am more inclined to think that people like Haffajjee, who edits City Press, are most likely to be the kind that wakes up in the morning, sees their black faces in the mirror only to feel a wave of self-hatred rising up to nauseate them.
Who’s this mystery businessman that apparently paid R200 000 into Malema’s family trust? Which government tender did Malema grant him and how?
Can we be sure that City Press did not manufacture these facts? If it didn’t, how do we know it did not break the law to obtain them and then twisted these “facts” to ruin Malema? We know that News Of The World was closed down in England because its journalists illegally hacked into people’s private phones for news. Who’s to say that Haffajee’s City Press isn’t doing the same?
And let’s say Malema does have a family trust, that the trust is funded by black businesspeople and that these businesspeople made their fortune through government tenders. What the hell is wrong with all that?
It’s clear to everybody that white South African business is locking black people out. The only real source of business for us is our government. Are we now being told that if we make money through government contracts, our only hope, we cannot use that money to help fellow black people who are in politics, who need private funding to function?
Where then should black politicians get financial support?
Trusts are legal entities. There is no legal limit to how much legally earned money can be put in them or by whom. If Malema has a family trust that is not in breach of any law, it is none of Haffajee’s or anybody’s business. The man is not a government official.
Mandela has trusts in his name, but because white people put money in them there are no Haffajee complaints. The white DA receives money largely from white business, which is the main economic beneficiary of the government’s tender system.
The Haffajees of this racist world are not digging up any dirt on DA officials. Instead, they sickeningly presume that white fortune is legitimately earned until proven otherwise and that it’s the opposite for black success.
To hell with Haffajee and her kind.
Julius Malema, die ANC-jeugleier, oorheers steeds die afgelope paar dae se opskrifte in die media. Times Live berig dat Malema op Queenstown voor die hof gesê het: “Hulle (wittes) moet betaal omdat hulle ons slawe gemaak het, ons moet hulle straf. En nou moet hulle boet. As ons dit nie doen nie, betaal ons hulle omdat hulle ons kaffers noem.