Letter to the editor: New Zealand Herald

Sent this to the New Zealand Herald this morning:

Dear sir,

I am writing in relation to your article "No kidding, South Africa is a completely different country".

I find several points made quite offensive. Singling out Afrikaners as having "bad breath" because they eat putrefied meat (by the way, "putrefication" is spelled putrification) is a parochial and factually inaccurate characterisation of a minority group in the new South Africa. It is not surprising that the author spouts such nonsense given that he never ventured beyond a hotel except for, by his own admission, rugby and discos. Perhaps this lack of any perspective qualifies him uniquely to write for the New Zealand Herald.

Yours,

Louis Joubert

Perhaps a day will come when I do not feel mysteriously injured when someone says something unflattering about Afrikaans-ness.