Johan Rupert


I have watched and listened to the Chairman’s Conversation, and some quotes are picked without context as Johan Rupert elaborates at large in this Q&A. Given Mkhari has also been a most welcome host and have engaged in proper with Rupert and Rupert responded accordingly.

Why people state this discussion as racist is way beyond me, but it is due to those selected quotes without context and how he applies his words.
 
I don't hear what was said by him to be insulting, but then the persecuted feelings type will always cry cry cry foul
 
smi said:
I don't hear what was said by him to be insulting, but then the persecuted feelings type will always cry cry cry foul
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Those with an inferiority complex will always complain about things said by what others say.
 
Maybe he's stating factual info but from the article in the OP he appears to make to sweeping generalisations. Not every black person is materialistic or spends all their time at Taboo/Sands. And there's nothing wrong with doing it either as long as you're not doing it on credit. And that bit about understanding cash flow sounds like nonsense as well. All of the things he states are applicable across race groups.
 
smi said:
I don't hear what was said by him to be insulting, but then the persecuted feelings type will always cry cry cry foul
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When I watched it, the live commenting on YouTube, many called him a racist before he even opened his mouth.
 
Get the simple facts right, his name is Johann, with 2 * n
 
Poor dude minding his own business and suddenly became a major enemy of black nationalists because of a London PR firm.
 
T-Man said:
Get the simple facts right, his name is Johann, with 2 * n
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While on getting simple facts right, how do we pronounce the surname? Guttural R? T silent?

/heads for the door
 
What amazes me is Mkhari's reaction to Rupert's wisdom, which was contrasted by the interviewer's "Gimme, gimme, gimme" afterwards.

Mkhari is such a totally arrogant douche, Rupert was giving away much valuable wisdom in his answers, yet he didn't pick up on any of it. His main purpose was clear: to become opra winfree.

Another shining example of Black Excellence.
 
Fulcrum29 said:

I have watched and listened to the Chairman’s Conversation, and some quotes are picked without context as Johan Rupert elaborates at large in this Q&A. Given Mkhari has also been a most welcome host and have engaged in proper with Rupert and Rupert responded accordingly.

Why people state this discussion as racist is way beyond me, but it is due to those selected quotes without context and how he applies his words.
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You're naive. Rupert is white, rupert is rich that automatically makes him racist. How do you not get it?
 
ponder said:
You're naive. Rupert is white, rupert is rich that automatically makes him racist. How do you not get it?
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The silly thing is, Rupert spoke casually and very layman. He said things as it is through his own experiences without any interpretation or political correctness – He was as direct as possible.

You know, when other races are ‘direct’ towards whites then we have to accept it. We are to accept white privilege, we are to accept white monopoly capital, we have to accept a lot… Here comes Rupert, speaking his own mind, telling the people his own story, asking people to work together and is then being labelled a racist.

Something caught my eye in the media in regard to the SAHRC media statement on Malema/Vodacom, to quote,

https://www.sahrc.org.za/index.php/...m-store-at-the-mall-of-the-north-in-polokwane

The incident is a response to the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards ceremony held in Midrand on Friday 30thNovember 2018. An image of the EFF’s President and Deputy President was apparently shown during an address of one of the speakers with the caption “abusers of democracy – this was interpreted as an attack of the EFF leadership”.

The Commission is of the view that political parties as well as the population at large should ensure that we all use the legal and constitutional mechanisms at our disposal in addressing grievances. A constitutional democracy such as ours should not tolerate violence and/or looting and vandalism as a response to utterances that are not acceptable to one group or another in our society. There are appropriate legal and constitutional mechanisms which can be used in order to express such dislikes.

The Commission commends and supports the criminal investigation by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on this matter. The Commission will also monitor the matter closely and will intervene when necessary and appropriate.
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when we talk about democracy, we are racist. Our 'utterances' are unacceptable. When have the SAHRC intervened in 'white' related matters? PCASA lost a security worker, being set alight, to a strike announced by NUMSA, where is the intervention, that was torture, right?

Rupert, asking people to help each other... racist. This country is seriously unbalanced, disembowelled.
 
One bit that stuck, in apartheid if you were in the wrong camp, communist, today, racist.
 
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics...ohann-ruperts-controversial-comments-18396999

Cape Town - While South African billionaire businessman Johann Rupert was slammed by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) for being "racist" during a recent interview, many black South Africans agreed with Rupert.

The chairman of Swiss-based luxury-goods company Richemont and SA-based Remgro group was a guest on PowerFM's annual Chairman’s Conversations. The interview left South Africans divided on Tuesday.

Rupert was asked to respond to allegations that he was an apartheid beneficiary who was now a central figure of "white monopoly capital”. He denied that his father’s empire benefited from apartheid.
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