Outrage over racist poll rant on Facebook
Tanya Smit was accused of being a racist after she posted racist remarks about the municipal elections results on Facebook.
|||* UPDATE: It has been brought to our attention that this was a fake Facebook account set up to stir controversy. IOL is investigating further and will update the story when we have more information.
Johannesburg - A Facebook user identified as Tanya Smit sparked outrage on social media on Thursday after she posted racist remarks on the municipal elections results.
On her Facebook status that was screengrabbed and shared mostly on Twitter, she wrote: “Wow the DA takes Groblersdal and Marble Hall. The blacks sal nou kak wees. (the black will be sh*t).
“No more Nsfas (National Student Financial Aid Scheme), no more clueless uneducated blacks in government, no more Sassa (South African Social Security Agency) cards f**ol. For 22 years you’ve destroyed our country, it’s payback time now. Hulle sal k*k. (They’re going to sh*t). Change is starting to happen.”
This sparked a storm of outrage, with social media users branding Smit a racist.
Among them was @Ponder_Rails12, who said: “Tanya Smit is stupid if she thinks all that sh** she said is going to happen. Haha nah famo THIS IS THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA Baba !Guns are so 1852.”
Also irked by Smit’s racisit rant was @LabeeqahR_SA, who said: “Tanya Smit is a disgrace to the human race.”
“@Sharkie1965 tweeted: “What a totally uneducated, racist prat. It’s people like this Tanya Smit that are holding this awesome country back!”
@justkuda said: “People like Tanya Smit must do some jail time to learn how wrong racism is. A R100 000 fine isn’t gonna help.”
Smit was unperturbed. She replied: “The mission is to take away the right to education for black people because we want you to remain servants to white people ie maids, garden boys We don’t want to give you the power by giving the right to education.”
Smit was not immediately available for comment.
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The Star