Cape Town – Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie has called for the Open Chats podcaster to attend race sensitivity classes following racist remarks aimed at Coloured people.
McKenzie emphasised restorative justice, saying the podcasters should not have criminal records.
“They should go to race sensitivity classes,” he said on The Konvo Show.
“I will not allow those kids to go to jail. We have restorative justice in our country. They should have no (criminal) records.”
He also claimed to have stopped threats against the podcasters, though the EFF’s deputy president, Godrich Gardee, accused him of being complicit for not reporting the threats to police.
“This is deeper than what transpired between us and them. These kids don’t know that there are people who take things out of hand. People see the call of someone asking for their address.
“I was the one that called those people and I said ‘no, I’m handling this’. But people don’t see that. Those kids don’t know who they are messing with,” McKenzie said.
McKenzie, who faces his own backlash for using a racial slur on social media, further suggested that Coloured people have fewer opportunities than Black people, citing limited access to funding such as NSFAS.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
