The EFF has long called for total decolonisation of our public symbols. This underlies our inability to join in the fake celebration of the Springboks because the Springbok is a sign that cannot be white washed. It stands in parallel continuity with Die Stem and trenching white supremacy in our society. That is why the rugby team in question is white dominated. It is a perfect reflection that white people have
successfully resisted change in our country for the last
25 years by definition, apartheid was always about creating a situation where black people live as though they are minority in this country when in fact we are the majority. [Interjections.]