Our print and electronic mass media platforms were full of news headlines to the effect that Dr Ruel Khoza said the post-apartheid South African government must learn from and copy what the Afrikaners, meaning people who speak Afrikaans and who closely identify themselves with the aspirations of the Afrikaans speakers, did to empower themselves since the National Party came to power in 1948.
Many people deliberately want to misunderstand Khoza. When we listen or read anything, we must learn to fully contextualise everything we read or listen to for us to understand what the speaker or writer meant. That is what
