It’s not so much that Stellenbosch University student Theuns du Toit and racists such as him hate black people — the real problem is that supposedly influential black people suffer a level of self-hate that props up the racism.

The very ones who are condemning Du Toit, most notably our politicians, are somewhat responsible for his actions. 

In the wake of revelations that Du Toit peed on Babalo Ndwayana’s laptop and books — saying words to the effect: “It’s a white thing, boy” — his reprehensible actions have predictably elicited ad hominem opprobrium...