DA-run education departments endorse Critical Race Theory seminar at Stellenbosch

The anti-white indoctrination programme, to be hosted at Stellenbosch University on the 3-5 October, has support from both the WCED and the national Dept of Basic Education

Since this article was printed, the department has responded, and ordered the SJA to remove their claim to affiliation with the WCED. Their response is printed in full here, with some additional commentary. 

In October this year, an NGO known as the Social Justice Agency (SJA) is hosting the Global Anti-Racism Summit at Stellenbosch University. The organisation running this programme is partnered with the Western Cape and national education departments, both currently run by the DA. The Social Justice Agency’s website shows the following sponsors:

The first partner, Alternative Prosperity, is a BEE and DEI consulting group in partnership with African Rainbow Capital, a subsidiary of Ubuntu-Botho Investments, a parasitic BEE vehicle started in 2004 to take advantage of the then-new compulsory race-based share investment laws. The second partner is just a wealthy left-wing Cape agricultural dynasty.

The WCED and the DBE are not the only departments who work with the NGO. The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture gave SJA founder Edwin Cleophas an official position as chaiman of the National Steering Committee on Social Cohesion Advocates, and earned his academic career at Stellenbosch with little more than verbose invective against the white race.

The SJA has worked with the WCED before at least once, at Kleinvlei Sekondêr. The VF+ has in the past attempted to get the ties between the NGO and the provincial department investigated, but made the mistake of appealing to the racially partisan Chapter 9 institutions for support.

The vision of the event is to bring together “visionary thought-leaders from the worlds of anti-racism and racial healing in Africa, the US, and the UK to chart a new path for this movement.”  All this is being done to solve what they call “institutional racism.”

The organisation’s website hides the content of its racial evangelism behind paywalls, and the event itself costs thousands of rands a ticket, but we can glean the content by observing who they have invited to speak.

Speakers at the event include Robin Diangelo, a professional extortionist whose main grift is to blackmail institutions with accusations of systemic racism before charging them millions in consulting fees to lecture staff on why being white means you contain an ineradicable evil you must eternally atone for.

Other guests include radio talk show host Esther Armah, a woman whose entire claim to fame is being black, resenting white people and writing unwatchable plays funded by the taxpayer, Akilah Riley-Richardson, a therapist who considers psychotherapy to be about telling black people that all their problems are caused by having to share a society with whites, Benjamin Boswell a pastor who promotes homosexuality and transgenderism while telling white parishioners that their original sin is being white, and a black supremacist grifter called Dante King.

From South Africa, we have Tshepo Madlingozi, a commissioner at the notoriously and openly racially partisan SAHRC, Schalk van Heerden of Betereinders, a movement trying to convince Afrikaners that being deprived of their rights and exposed to genocidal rhetoric is for their own good, a radical decolonisation lunatic from UKZN called Pedro Mzileni, and UJ’s professor Salim Vally, who believes that all land and unfixed property must be confiscated from white people.

This wouldn’t be the first time the Western Cape Education Department has supported racial demonisation lectures for kids – you may recall the incident at Fish Hoek High school. At this festival of grubby racial resentment run by the WCED, learners were told that white people are the only ones who can be racists, and that all white people are racist, it can never be escaped. This was organised by the SJA too.

White students were forced to listen to lectures from an angry black lady telling them they can never be forgiven for being born white, and must spend the rest of their days giving black people whatever they want and disciplining other white people. The coordinators of the event equated Christianity to “white patriarchal oppression.” One mother I spoke to said that her daughter left in tears after being “traumatized” by the training.

But David Maynier of course backed down after public attacks and pretended to apologise while firing nobody. We tried contacting his department to ask about the precise nature of their partnership with the SJA, but as of the time of publication, no response has been returned.

More recently, witch hunts at private schools run by extortion rackets like that of Diangelo (often involving her personally) have come to dominate headlines, as Richard Wilkinson has extensively documented.

They were also invited to intervene to prevent pupils at a Worcester school from being punished for consuming drugs on the premises in 2021.

A member of the SJA, Elize Morkel, wrote on her blog that she has worked with the WCED in schools in Hout Bay, Ocean View and Idas Valley to push the particular view of antiwhite racial bigotry as trauma therapy. The organisation has, according to this blog post, also penetrated the Dutch Reformed Church’s Western Cape synod.

The DA realise this is an issue which matters to their constituents, and so often makes little statements in support of the beleaguered staff and students forced to deal with the draconian atmosphere of racial animosity stoked by these people.

Yet it seems that the DA has not learned their lesson, evidenced by the fact that they run both the national department of basic education and the WCED, both of which are partnered with the organisation peddling this crap, The Social Justice Agency.

Their solutions to the “ongoing presence of racism” that manifest in “psychological, social and economic disparities” include anti-racism training and lessons on “social justice.”

Reminds one of Chinese re-education camps.

The terms “social justice” and “anti-racism” have been tackled by many people, but one of the earliest thorough criticisms comes from the economist and public intellectual Thomas Sowell. Sowell warns us that terms like “anti-racism” and “social justice” are ideological in nature. In other words, they are deployed to reshape society on ideology terms.

Regarding social justice Sowell says that, “if you give the government enough power to create ‘social justice,’ you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that simple fact.”

This actually reminds me of Helen Zille who wants to “shortcut history” through forced diversity in order to build a successful “democracy” in Southern Africa. Her 13-years with Goerge Soros’s Open Society Foundation seem to have left their mark, and though she has called for an end to “woke”, she has on more than one occasion highlighted that the main risk of this stuff is that it incites a backlash from conservatives.