The
resurfacing of urine and urinating at yet another of the historically white,
and exclusively Afrikaner University, is a coded message about the maturity of
our social cohesion if any at all. Watching the video, listening to its
content, searching for condemnation from civil society movements that have
lately clamored for the moral leadership of South Africa, and experiencing the
mixed feelings of urine and urination with the urinated and made to consume
urine being BantuBlack evokes all sorts of emotions. The gut from which anger
comes has since the breaking of news been negotiating with the logic of
forgiveness for a generation whose whole life should only know non-racialism
and equality of all, under any circumstances.

Theuns
du Toit, an Afrikaner boy in his early twenties, admitted at what is arguably
one of the bastions of Afrikaner and Afrikanses-led intellectual institutions,
has once again brought the spotlight on the fallacy of outside household
socialization and social cohesion. The engineered and ritualized non-racial society
that South Africa, and on paper, has manufactured does not seem to be holding
on to our actual reality. Theuns is a product of how he was socialized, he is a
reflection of deeper issues that those assigned to conduct an investigation
should also find ways of reporting about.

 It
would be hollow to limit the investigation to Theuns alone. The institutional
foundations that produced his person need to be interrogated. It would be
important to know the high school he matriculated from, what is the general
profile of the school, how integrated is that school including its staff
complement, what is the general relations between the ground staff and
learners, and what associations and social formations influence the teachers
and parenting community. Theuns might be a creature of a religious community,
he might have been in youth camps, he belongs to sororities that are
historical, and he listens to the radio and has cultural role models we need to
know about.

 Theuns
went through an education system, he read prescribed books and material, and he
took books out of a library society needs to know what is on those shelves. He
has parents we need to know about, his parents have colleagues or sub-ordinates
we need to interview and profile the environment within which his anchors are
dependent, and his correctness has been affirmed by an immediate community we need
to know about.

 Theuns
has fears and hopes about his future. What are these fears, who confirmed these
fears, and why are these fears stronger. A report that deals with the above
require a cooperating Theuns and his network. Theuns should thus be made a
case study out of which an abstraction of a possible reality could be
constructed. Cues from Theuns’ real situation should be modeled to commission
a study to investigate how the socialization of children is supportive of a
non-racial future. 

As I
conclude let me posit an extract from an article in the blog post in 2018,

Nelson
Mandela warns that “no one is born hating another person because of the color
of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People… learn to hate, and if
they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more
naturally to the human heart than its opposite”.The power to teach is directly
related to the power to curriculate, and the power to curriculate is an outcome
of an institutionalized content and theorization, and theorization means
availability of resources to write, print and distribute. Racism has a value
chain, and these value chains are anchored on economic and ideational power.
Racism is therefore not only a blight on the human conscience, but a
disfigurement of any civilization.

Theuns
is, therefore, and like many other kids or young adults like him, a victim of
what he potentially grew up knowing it is not incorrect to do certain things to
other humans, simply be he is what he said he is in the video. Theuns is a son
of this country that cries for help, like many, to get out of bad parenting at
dinner tables and exclusive socialization spaces other races are not or never
invited.

Or maybe Theuns was too drunk to find a toilet, and if that is the case his drunkenness has unfortunately betrayed him because of the reason he gave why he saw that specific type of a urine disposal space…

The inverse of all that is above can be applicable to
Nkateko or Sifiso somewhere at a dinner table or youth formation. Theuns is
more of an opportunity for South Africa to be honest about how it shapes future
generations. CUT!!

🤷🏿‍♂️A ndzo ti vulavulela makwerhu 

🤷🏿‍♂️Xihlahlau you learn