In a Facebook post she referred to black beachgoers as “monkeys”, which has sparked national outrage.
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“Attitudes of such vitriolic racism have absolutely no place in South Africa”, Nt’sekhe said.
Kohler Barnard’s was previously expelled for sharing a Facebook post from journalist Paul Kirk, in which he praised former apartheid president PW Botha. Beaches were strictly segregated under apartheid.
In her post, Sparrow claims that “these monkeys that are allowed to be released on New Years Eve[sic] and new years day[sic] on to public beaches towns etc obviously have no education what so ever [sic] and to allow them loose is inviting huge dirt and discomfort to others”. “I do not see how we should be blamed for this behaviour as she has not been in our employ since November”, she added.
The ANCYL said Sparrow “must pay” for her backward utterances. She also repeated the monkey comparison. This got a lot of people up in arms and she was called to order. “They are an insult to me and to our party”. I wasn’t being nasty or rude or awful, but it’s just that they make a mess.
More than two decades after the end of apartheid, racist abuse on social media and online is so commonplace that several media outlets past year shut down the comments sections under news articles.
Former Miss South Africa Jo-Ann Strauss has found herself in hot water after she tweeted an African proverb in response to the #PennySparrow racist comment, which has had the entire country in a heated debate since Sunday night. The charges include Crimen Iniuria for infringing the dignity of all South Africans and for dehumanising black South Africans.
“Interaction in more intimate spaces, such as private homes and social or communal gatherings, is limited”, the institute found. “They further accuse the majority of our country, who are mostly black, as having a sense of entitlement and hatred towards the minority”, the statement read.
Hart, who works for Standard Bank, has been suspended pending an investigation.
But it was Sparrow’s tweet that really ignited a firestorm.
Speaking to The Citizen, Ditshego said comments like Sparrow’s dampened South Africans resolve to reconcile as a nation and create a non-racial society.
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She was reinstated in December after she fought the expulsion.
