Why do I still need to tell them who my people and I are? Who are we now that we are no longer hated nationalists or apartheid people? Do I need hefty volumes and thousands upon thousands of printed words, do I need to barricade myself in my study behind lofty, toppling heaps of impressive, bulky tomes for it to get through to him [that Afrikaans is more than the hated apartheid language?… I realise I am more than just language.
Now 34, Wessels cut his teeth as a former member of the Free State Legislature while current ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule was premier of the shattered province. Wessels served in that legislature on the Social Services, Public Accounts and Finance, Economic Development and Infrastructure Development committees. He was the party’soath as an MP in the National Parliament in 2017. He currently occupies fourth place on the FF+ list.
That’s the new, new, new South Africa where everything has shifted. Nothing is as it seems while everything is exactly as it seems. But wait, there is more. The FF+, in its manifesto, states that the party is committed to “preserving human rights not only in South Africa, but also worldwide”.”, of racial nationalism, or who define the party as alt-right, will miss the nuances that have inspired some South Africans to locate and identify themselves outside of the catch-all “rainbow-nation-we-are-one” post-apartheid ideal.
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