OPINION: A judge has recommended the government consider setting up a register for race offenders - just as we do with sexual offenders. 'Give that judge a Bell's', says Dennis Pather.
In the bad old days of strict racial separation in schools, a scuffle between two pupils was soon settled with little fuss or bother.
A strict warning, a week of detention or an entry into the principal’s disciplinary black book would have sufficed.By juxtaposing these two schoolboy scenarios, I’m simply asking questions that should be on the minds of South Africans. That’s not to say we’re going soft on racists. On the contrary, those hardened and unrepentant bigots who persist in using derogatory and racially divisive language and hate speech must be brought to book.
Acting high court judge Victor Nqumse said the purpose would be to enter the details of those “who relentlessly treat the foundational values that underpin our constitution with disdain” and who undermine efforts to build a non-racial society.
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