My father and grandfather came here in the 1930's when they were deprived of their citizenship by the Nazi's. They came to escape hate and prejudice based on religion, not to colonise or monopolise anything.
Increasingly, the hate speech generated on social media from all demographics is increasingly scary, to me anyway. It's being stirred up at an alarming rate. On the flip side, in everyday life, I hardly ever come across racism, and people are mostly kind, helpful and friendly. But when the spark is lit and the message is driven home every day, how long can the tolerance of ordinary South Africans last? And it's a domino - first it's WMC, the so called fat-cats, but sooner or later than translates down to white people in general. Same the other way round, starts with Zuma, moves onto the ANC, then to black people. Stereotyping is such a dangerous thing, and its being bred here with no thought to consequence. We are in a bad, bad space, we need to learn from history, fast.