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Everytime a South African Indian rears racist mentality, my thoughts time travel to the 1949 Cato Manor riots. It's time to stop walking on eggshells around false minority feelings.

The Foundation’s Executive Director, Neeshan Balton, said that Moodley’s attitude was “repulsive and must be strongly condemned”.

The Active Citizens Movement calls on law enforcement agencies to deal with Gopie “no differently from any other racist that sows division and disharmony by such utterances.”

My name is Rajesh Gopie. Yesterday I responded to a video posted on social; of a brutal, merciless and cowardly mob murder of an innocent steward at a soccer match.

He deserves to be charged like anybody else. It is blatantly racist. It is unforgivable to think that someone could still say something like this 24 years after 1994. - Ashwin Trikamjee, SA Maha Sabha

Young people from across the country are encouraged to participate in the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s 2018 youth essay writing competition against racism.

The Kathrada Foundation calls on the commission to focus specifically on state capture under President Zuma, and investigate the allegations of state capture against the Gupta family.

SharePrime Minister Narendra Modi’s travel schedule for the new year has already been drawn up and is set to visit South Africa yet again. PM Modi is likely to travel to South Africa for the BRICS Summit thereafter he heads to Argentina for the G-20 Summit; Singapore for India-Asean & East Asia summits. The 2018 BRICS summit is next the tenth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The summit will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the second time the South Africa has hosted the summit after the 2013 summit.

News24’s revelation in August 2016 that local electronics and security firm Siyangena Technologies made payments to companies linked to Moodley totaling a staggering R550m. The payments came after Siyangena clinched Prasa contracts in 2011 and 2013 together valued at about R4bn.