From: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Absence of black posters from SA
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:54:13 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BxHLLE.25w@casper.cs.uct.ac.za> gds@cs.uct.ac.za writes:
>pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>Blacks are allowed to play.  You don't believe me?  Ask the students of 
>Luhlaza High School in Khayalitsha, or Alexander High in what use to be 
>District 6.  They are not the only "black schools" that received free 
>computers and now receive free computer education with the help of 
>volunteers, some of which are staff and students in this department.
>


I know boers, they are all liars down to the last one. 	Supposing one or
Africans had access to a computer this would still mean nothing. The over
 whelming majority (99%) of Souht Africans are exploited, oppressed and
deprived. 

I am not asking you to find an obscure primary school whic has one comp
uter and parade it as an example of opportunity for black people. What
about the students in you University, why are the blacks not allowed
to post.

I talked to my fiends Kaiser Modise and Jabulani Tambo who go the Univer
sity of Cape Town. They tell me it is the most racist place you could
ever go to. A black man had better watch his step or he will be gone.

I asked them why they don't post on the net, and they told me that I am
crazy. As simple black people, they'd better not show too much ambition.
A black man who wants to go in the sciences is discouraged. Most of the
amenities are reserved for whites. The student union is infiltrated by
the Burea of State Security and the broederbond. A lot of the white students
support Eugene Terreblanche.

 Every thing say and do is monitored and has sometimes come back to haunt
many blacks. The computers are adminstered by the University which is state
supported and has a responsibility to project a good image of the country
(here the line was suspiciously getting noisy)

I asked them if they used the computer at all. They said yes but only for
homework and other academic stuff. Everything was strictly monitored by
the white supervisers and printing of personal stuff was discouraged and
in the case of blacks illegal. I expalined the debate on the net. They
told me that South Africa had not changed. They told me that one of their
professors had just called the blacks in class 'kaffirs'.

When I informed them of the discussion on the net, they got animated and
wished they had the opportunity to participate and set the boers straight.
They thanked me for doing a good job and asked me to keep it up.

I aked them what they thought of the peace negotiations. One thought they
were not right. He felt that Nelson was too soft and should be replaced 
by a firebrand. The other thought that the ANC did what it could under
the circumstances. He felt ithat it could not prosecute the war that was
needed to stop Boer intrnansigence by because the neighbouring country 
had lost their political will. Both thought that the ANC was negotiating
from a disavantaged position having neither the mandate nor the millitary
muscle to as a bagaining lever.

I asked them about homosexuality. They said I was asking a ridiculous quest
ion and should as an African that such things were abhorred. One told of a
'gay' rights march by Africans, who he said however drew the indignation 
of all. They were known to have been instigated and acting under the orders
of their white lovers.(It did not suprise me) 

I aked again why they did not post, and just when they were going to start saying someting there was a click and the line was cut.

(I think they are ok).

MAKALA