Johannesburg – White South Africans were the victims of the very system they were fighting to preserve, co-operative governance and traditional affairs deputy minister Andries Nel said on Thursday.

“For in becoming racialists and exploiters, they become closed off to important areas of human experience,” he said at a round table on whiteness, Afrikaans and Afrikaners in Johannesburg.

“The essential thing white South Africans lose is openness to the future and to other people.”

Nel was speaking under the theme Where are the Suzmans, Slovos, Fischers and Naudes of today?

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