Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie has given his support for ICE in the United States In South Africa where the Springbok was once a symbol of racial exclusion but now a symbol of unity and hope, sport and politics have always been linked. During Apartheid, the world boycotted our sports teams to help end a racist system. Because of this history, the Minister of Sport has a special duty to stand up for human rights.
So, when Gayton McKenzie voiced his support for the aggressive actions of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in America, he was turning his back on the very values that brought South Africa back into the international sporting world. “I totally agree with ICE. We must do the same here with what they’re doing there.
I cannot criticise something that I want in my own country,” McKenzie said this week. McKenzi ran on the immigration topic ahead of the South African elections, calling for the deportation of undocumented people in the country. It’s been something Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians all over the world have run on as well. But the way they are going about rounding “illegal aliens” in the US has been disturbing to say the least.
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