Last week Gateway News published a call on South Africans to have a say on the so-called Apartheid Bill which seeks to “harshly” punish citizens or organisations who support Israel. You still have until Monday December 15 to comment on the Dear South Africa website by clicking on the following link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/apartheid-bill/. All responses will be submitted to Parliament.
This week we publish a response by Marie Sukers founder of Voice to Parliament and former ACDP MP, to the private-member’s bill sponsored by Imran Ismail-Moosa MP of Al Jama-ah party on behalf of a “secretariat” of eight parties, including the ANC, EFF, MK Party, PAC, and GOOD.
Sukers wrote the comments below in response to a request from Gateway News for her views on the bill:
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Our responsibility as South Africans is to protect the hard-won freedoms we gained in 1994. We can’t allow our domestic agenda to continue to be dominated by the war in the Middle East. Neither can we allow the continued hijacking of our foreign policy at the expense of our national interest.
More than half of this country lives under the bread line, with our crime stats resembling a war zone. Everyday ordinary South Africans are faced with hunger and violence, you don’t have to look to Gaza; visit Coronation, Eldo’s, and go to the Eastern and Northern Cape where children’s development is being stunted by hunger. A mother from the Eastern Cape, in 2023, Ntombizanele Mtsizela, 35,poisoned herself and her three children after going hungry for weeks.
The political direction of this country needs a reset.
Political parties who drive an agenda that does not put South Africans first and who. through policies and laws, pursue an agenda that subverts our agreed-upon values and principles, as pertained in our Constitution should be called out as mercenaries for foreign interest.
We are being captured by an ideological agenda with political aims, and we must not be blind to their intentions. The war in the Middle East has overshadowed the domestic agenda and we can no longer tolerate the curators of this agenda who use our apartheid past as propaganda in a highly effective strategy, that has captured the imagination of a generation in search of a meaningful cause to fight, but who lack the ability to think critically. Hashtags and social media are often the classrooms that inform their opinion.
Policy and laws sets the agenda and so Al-Jamah is telling South Africans who they are as a political organisation and what the values are that they fight for. We must reject their proposals. They are the silent but powerful bedfellows of a captured ANC!
The move by Al-Jamah to push forward this private-member’s bill should not be seen in isolation, or as not part of a broader political agenda to push this country in a political direction through laws that undermine the rights and freedoms of South Africans.
We are now faced with the real-time effect of politcs defining the landscape we live in, where policies and laws are embedding the cultural narratives to make it permanent by the rule of law.
The ANC is driving the country in a different direction than the agreed contract in 1994 as they pursue greater state control over society at every level from education to health. Al-Jamah is in bed with them, and serve in the GNU. Their direction should be seen for what it is — a carefully-planned strategy to reshape our society.
We need to carefully consider the narrative by powerful individuals like Naledi Pandor (former Minister of International Relations and current chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation), and the Director General for International Affairs (Zane Dangor), who target specific groups of people they deem as “dangerous”, based on their beliefs. And we must notice how those narratives find expression in the policy direction they push through regulation and laws. What is culture becomes embedded by legislation — this is why elections are important and have consequences that impact generations. What becomes law determines the country and reality you live in. Passive acceptance of this current reality is not only being complicit to this agenda that undermines personal freedoms, it is the deliberate, willful abdication of personal responsibility that leads to opression.
The very things a generation says it abhors — apartheid — was made permanent by law, and it subjected a whole race of people to discrimination and oppression. We have the same strategy — just covered in the former glory of liberation politics but in the finery of Communist Marxist propaganda. Highly effective as a drunken cocktail that poisons the mind, while giving greater control to the state. The ANC, through BELA, NHI and its most recent attack through the CRL on the Evangelical movement is resetting this country through regulations and this private member’s bill by one of its allies, is more of the same. The Church must be awake to what is a threat to religious freedom and freedom of expression. We have entered a new season of new political threats emerging, and we must be fully awake to the tactics and aims of the ANC and its bedfellows.
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The anti apartheid bill is exactly what it says. Anti Apartheid. No one on earth has the right to treat another people with less dignity and respect nevermind taking innocent lives. This bill stands for humanity and Jesus would have never taken the sides of the oppressors
I fully agree. History has shown us that what is legislated eventually becomes normalised, and passive acceptance always comes at a cost. Oppression is rarely introduced overnight, it is built incrementally through laws, regulations, and compliance..The painful irony is that a generation that rightly condemns apartheid risks repeating its mechanics, just dressed in different language and justified through ideology. When the state expands control under the banner of liberation, equality, or regulation, freedoms are quietly eroded..The Church must remain awake, discerning, and courageous. Religious freedom and freedom of expression are not guaranteed forever, they must be defended responsibly and lawfully. This is indeed a new season, and silence now will be interpreted as consent later.