If M-Net and Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) feel anything for viewers, for race relations and gender equality in South Africa, the pay broadcaster that carries the hateful Kuli Roberts' show Headline will distance themselves from her and cancel her show and any ties immediately.
After Kuli Roberts' vitriol-laiden, breathlessly shocking, and brazenly racist rant in her tabloid newspaper column that's filled with misaligned and incredible hurtful stereotypes, M-Net and Mzansi Magic would be condoning Kuli Roberts' tragically flawed views by allowing her back on television or by continuing to be in business with her. Yes, there is magic in Mzansi, but to have Kuli Roberts on Mzansi Magic after espousing her derogatory remarks about women of colour would now detract from it.
When television - or any media for that matter - continues to feature or give a platform (and thereby oxygen) to a certain personality, the implied message is always: this person is okay. This person is good. This person is what we associate ourselves with since we're about quality and excellence.
What Kuli Roberts wrote, and what Kuli Roberts is really thinking, is just not okay. And its not quality, and its not excellence. Animals breed Kuli. Not people. And the utterly undignified way in which you talk about people would not make someone like Madiba proud.
You're disgusting views on woman (it so sad; you're one yourself), people of colour, and such a lack of any insensitivity for who we are as South Africans, where we come from and who we want to be, says as much about yourself Kuli Roberts as what you've said about a portion of this rainbow nation (who neither ''looked like they've popped out of an Usher video'' or ''love to fight in public'' as you so lovingly hateful wrote).
It's sad to think that what you've written is really how you feel. It's sad to think that that is what you think of other people. It's sad that you want to apologize in less than 140 characters on Twitter for hundreds of words in a cutting column of hate that does so much damage. If you so blatantly - and brazenly - attack a part of Mzansi - how really can you remain a part of the Mzansi Magic...
