1. This topic and issue does come up from time to time, perhaps most recently it relates to Helen Zille wearing a jersey with letters (in a really weird almost abstract font) that went "I am African".

I should maybe do a deeper thread (the topic is just quite petty and trivial),

2. about the topic of within the context of political discussion and in relation to current affair in South Africa, non-black South African people labeling themselves as African (in large part because that is how English currently works and has worked for a very long time).

3. One of the first points is that some particularly far left (even for South Africa) use non-African, non-black and white (of Western European, including UK, Ancestry at least going back a few centuries) as justification for discrimination and government supported abuse.

And as

4. a result political figures and in relation to current affairs non-black people use the label (as the English language allows, if one wants to explain that is not what they mean or they were implying a different sort of African when they used the term, they easily can there are

5. plenty of words to describe and clarify), because that is nonsense that abuse is justified because of a particularly narrow definition of "African".

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This thread barely covers small little details relating to that whole thing. But really it should be a non-issue. It is

6. not even as if there aren't major significant complaints or arguments to be made with those people, political parties and political views.

I have never and quite possible never will say or right or insist "I am African" because it is not a conversation that one has outside

7. of specifically relating to politics and certain current social issues. But regardless I still feel the same.