Rebecca, you are left wing – this does not mean that people who are to the right of you are "right wing" – they may in fact also be "left wing", just not as far to the left as you. Centrist, leaning to the right, is not "right wing”, just as centrist, leaning to the left is not “left wing". The assumption that Afrikaners are necessarily "right wing" is ridiculous, as is the assumption that “right wing” is “bad”. “Left wing” and “right wing” carry the same moral value – all that differs is the personal perspective from which life is viewed.

I find it annoying that the SA media, almost without exception, see right-wing politics in SA as being “white". I can only assume that this is the result of helpless prejudice or wilful blindness, because judged on a spectrum, the most extreme right-wingers in SA are black.
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