The greatest gift to humanity is the possibility to belong

Men and women who make our societies live in special permutations of wards, villages, towns and cities. We belong first to immediate families, then to clans, nations, regions, continents and, unfortunately too, to races.

Surely Sidney Pilane belongs in all these categories. There have been noises, loud noises, by those well placed to know better. Our media has not helped the cause. I write here to urge hands off Advocate Sidney Pilane. I argue that we have to refocus the debate. It is not about the man, it is all about what he thinks. If we are not cowards, let us engage with what he thinks, not what or where he drinks. For God's sake, let us talk about issues! Precisely because even if you were to prohibit, denationalise and deport Sidney Pilane, the problems he is pointing to would remain unresolved.