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M.J.K. ZONDI
Margate
10 March 1995
THE CONSTITUTION
OF SOUTH AFRICA
Let me comment about this Volkstaat that the Boers
want in this country. It is heartening to hear that there are some people who
still want to apply apartheid in this country at this time, after it has been
made sure that apartheid is dead and buried. No one
can deny that apartheid
will be applied to its core to our people in that place. I, for one, do not go
along with that idea of the
Boers. I do not want to be restricted in going
anywhere where I want to, whether. it is in the Cape, the O.F.S or any other
place.
It is clear that when one wants to visit this place, one would be
required to carry a passport. I am even presently disturbed by
the existence of
Lesotho in the middle of our country, being ruled by another government, and
that I have to carry a passport if
I want to go there.
How can you allow
a thing a thing like Volkstaat if you say that you are building a democratic
country? What I would like you to
know is that we elected you because we had
trust in you. You must therefore think that the members of the public elected
you because
they were tired of being oppressed. You must tell those Boers that
they will not get what they want in this country of our forefathers.
If they
want that rubbish, they must go back to where their forefathers came from. We
are tired of being oppressed by these foreigners.
I also to say something
about this. In this constitution that is drawn now, you have to think about the
traditional healers who have
been oppressed for a long time. In all the public
hearings that you have conducted, nothing is said about the traditional healers
(herbalists, inyangas, etc.), although these people are also members of the
public. They also contribute a lot in healing the sick
people of this country.
This country will not be a democratic country if the traditional healers are
left out in the drafting of
the constitution. We, traditional healers are not
violent people, and I do not want us to be under the present Department Health.
I say this because the Departments of Health of the provinces do not like us,
the traditional healers. It will be better if a Department
of Traditional
Healers can be created and be controlled by the traditional healers. I do not
want the traditional healers to be
supported or subsidised by the government,
but must be given their own department, so that we can have the same rights. If
you want
to know how this can work, contact us so that we can give you an idea
how this can work, because we do have our agenda.
You must remember that
if you can allow this thing of a Volkstaat to happen, there will be bloodbath in
this country, something you
will never be able to stop.
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