#WRQ2SA: White Refugee Q's to SA Politicians: Pres. Zuma, Helen Zille & Dr. Pieter Mulder

The following four questions are being submitted to the youth leagues of the ANC (via Pres. Zuma); DA (via Helen Zille) and Vryheids Front Plus (via Dr. Mulder) for their response.

Last week I joined a short discussion with Alex Lansdowne (DA Youth Leader for South Peninsula, Cape Town; Liberal; Realist. Proudly South African!!) and Sentletse (His tweets may contain views on any subject which may upset sensitive followers. Parental Guidance is strongly advised). Sentletse is an African Muslim who lives in Johannesburg and was giving a twitter edu-feed on African history. I picked up a retweet (RT) of Sentletse, retweeted by Alex; and responded to it, asking a few questions.

Alex responded to my questions (note questions, not statements of fact) by instructing Sentletse to ignore my questions and ignore me. Sentletse avoided answering my questions asking him to provide his definitions for what he considered to be 'racism' and 'harmonious existence', and how he could say that racism never existed before Europeans arrived, if he could not even provide a clear definition of what racism is. I answered Sentletse's questions, and then he followed Alex's suggesetion that I be ignored by proceeding to mute me.

Fair enough to say that neither of them showed any commitment towards answering questions and discussion.

Then yesterday, Alex posted a tweet about how upset he was with the ANCYL who “show a gross intolerance towards questions and discussion”. I responded that perhaps they learnt that from the DA Youth League. He then proceeded to inform me that if I submit clear questions to him, he would answer them.

So I submitted four questions to him, and informed him that I would submit the same four questions to the ANC and FF+ Youth Leagues, and blog the answers to the questions.

Below are the tweets about our initial discussion and the four questions submitted to Alex Landsdowne, Helen Zille, Pres. Zuma, etc. As soon as I receive their replies I shall post them in full to a new blog post, and update this blog post with a link to their responses.