Great article, Marelise - this is fast becoming one of my favourite columns on DM!

What I found most bizarre about the whole episode is that apparently no-one who listened understands how an analogy works, because if they did, they'd realise that she didn't call white people bullies, but was simply trying to give an easy explanation of the post-Apartheid black perspective.

As for Barnard’s statement that “Black people should stop saying we [white people] are to blame for their problems”, he clearly hasn't heard of that little thing that impacted on this country for 400 years, called Apartheid. (though perhaps he's too busy putting new marks in his 'asshole' column to pay much attention to history).

The best bit was that listeners were calling for a boycott of the station, similar to what they did with Spur, which they deemed to be 'anti-white' - forgetting that the only people truly hurt by the Spur boycott were the white franchisees who owned the boycotted stores!