Shareholder is racist: Mboweni

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Johannesburg - The attitude of one of the shareholders at the South African Reserve Bank's 88th ordinary annual general meeting was racist, SARB Governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday.
"I shall not permit you to talk to me like whites used to talk to blacks," Mboweni told shareholder Mario Pretorius.

Pretorius twice told Mboweni he wanted to bring a point of order to the meeting, and when he was not acknowledged said "shocking", which prompted the governor's response.

The meeting was characterised by a belligerent mood.

Another shareholder, Michael Duerr, told Mboweni he wanted to bring to shareholders' attention the failure to circulate to shareholders important items of special business proposed and on the agenda.

"The omission is deliberate," Duerr said. Mboweni found Duerr out of order.

After the meeting, Duerr issued a press statement claiming that, since 1920, the influence of shareholders at the bank had been gradually and drastically inhibited.

"The inherent value of their investment has been undermined," he contended.

Duerr said the meeting should have been abandoned to give shareholders proper notice of the special business to be discussed as part of the AGM.

That business included a discussion of flagrant contraventions by SARB employees.

It appeared these had not been investigated and that no action had been taken "despite these matters having been brought to the attention of the board".
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This is quite a frustrating trend displayed by black folks. As soon as there is some disagreement with somebody of another colour the race card is pulled because it is useful in silencing the other party even if the disagreement had nothing to do with race whatsoever.

I wish people would start taking people like Mboweni to task over their false cries of racism. All it would take would be for white people to stop putting up with this ****, kick up a stink every time it happens and go as far as making some sort of legal case out of the accusation.
 
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As soon as there is some disagreement with somebody of another colour the race card is pulled because it is useful in silencing the other party even if the disagreement had nothing to do with race whatsoever.
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And that is what they do, even when you try and take them to task about being in arrears for their levies in the complex.
 
Turiko said:
And that is what they do, even when you try and take them to task about being in arrears for their levies in the complex.
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Precisely what I'm talking about.

I've had the same accusation leveled at me multiple times from different folks.
e.g's:

- Being called a racist pig when I told a black woman I could not legally sell her something as she could not afford it according to the new credit act
- Being sworn at and told that I am a racist after stopping next to a guy in a shiny new BMW and asking him (nicely) to rather chuck his trash in the nearby bin than throw his KFC bucket out of the window while driving along the beach.
 
Iwojima said:
Precisely what I'm talking about.

I've had the same accusation leveled at me multiple times from different folks.
e.g's:

- Being called a racist pig when I told a black woman I could not legally sell her something as she could not afford it according to the new credit act
- Being sworn at and told that I am a racist after stopping next to a guy in a shiny new BMW and asking him (nicely) to rather chuck his trash in the nearby bin than throw his KFC bucket out of the window while driving along the beach.
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Just call them racists right back and see how pissed they get, then you have a laugh.
 
Iwojima said:
This is quite a frustrating trend displayed by black folks. As soon as there is some disagreement with somebody of another colour the race card is pulled because it is useful in silencing the other party even if the disagreement had nothing to do with race whatsoever.
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Lets be fair. White liberals pull the race card on other whites all the time :o
 
I can't believe he said that, I have lost ALL my respect for TITO now.

Well done TITO, well done, I see you are truly a leader in gift of the gab.

WOW. Just WOW.
 
Turiko said:
Please enlighten me with an example of where this has happened.
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^JeeZ!! Do you people have to be so hard on blacks the whole time?! You're not even fit to be called a South African IMO.

/example. :p

Seriously though, yes, I've seen it myself even when trying to educate an individual on how a simple queue works. :rolleyes:
 
Iwojima said:
- Being sworn at and told that I am a racist after stopping next to a guy in a shiny new BMW and asking him (nicely) to rather chuck his trash in the nearby bin than throw his KFC bucket out of the window while driving along the beach.
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OMG I hate litterers. I can stomach a person calling me a name, but jeepers why is it necessary to throw papers out of the window of a moving car.
We live amongst some of the filthiest people who aren't even aware of their own shortcomings. Useless trying to teach an old dog new tricks by correcting him as if that person who threw the garbage out the car cannot grasp what he has done wrong then how can he fathom anything else life may throw at him.
I suppose I can only apportion the blame on the parents of that litter bug who probably themselves know no better and did not pass on basic manners and etiquette.
 
This is the same TITO who told us he doesn't want blacks at the reserve bank. That he would stick with his Afrikaaners.:rolleyes:
 
Thats why I stick to my guns that SA's society will never get rid of segregation and racism.
 
I wonder why he felt like a black from 1920? Maybe he doesn't have much self-worth as he doesn't respect blacks from 1920?
 
It's a case of the "pot calling the kettle black"

Dont worry we will hear tomorrow that it was not meant in that context, something that happens a lot lately. You say something that is recognised as hate speech and racism and then you turn around and say you didnt mean it and all is forgiven especially when black person says that to a white person.
 
Seems our society is becoming more racist by the day instead of the other way round.
 
I think that comment made by Tito is out of character for him. Maybe he had a bad day. I really like Tito and Trevor, there are/were the few good guys that know what they are/were doing.
 
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