Vusi Thembekwayo

Businessman Vusi Thembekwayo made a controversial statement about the apartheid government after Kiernan “AKA” Forbes death.

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He says that the apartheid system and white supremacy is not only evil, but also capable enough to find ways to manifest that evil, and if we just stop at calling it evil, without registering its capabilities, it gives it power. However, he says that you can acknowledge it was a fundamentally evil system, and also acknowledge where its capabilities were, without that equating to support for the system. Following the backlash he received for this comment, he says this has made it very clear how difficult it is for South Africans to have difficult conversations and cancel the conversation before we have it. We do not have to agree but the conversation is important.Vusi Thembekwayo, South African Businessman He says that he absolutely agrees that apartheid was a crime against humanity, and the effects of this are still felt and seen today. He says his intention was not to amplify the Forbes family’s suffering but to start a conversation. If you pretend the capabilities of your enemy away, and mask them as evil and nothing else, you live in the false pretense that, because that enemy no longer has the power they had, their evil does not manifest.Vusi Thembekwayo, South African Businessman ‘We do not have to agree but the conversation is important’ – Vusi Thembekwayo Speaking on eNCA, Thembekwayo made the statement that if AKA had been killed during apartheid, and the then government wanted to find his killer, they would have done so within 24 hours.