The Cape Times today was very interesting: in the middle, where the cartoon, editorial and opinions are, there were three items dealing with race.  Two - diametrically opposed in space, as in, top right and bottom left - were opinion pieces on the "-ism".  One - top left - was simply on "race".

As in - the human race, and where we come from.  Like Mossel Bay...!

Remember that famous Campari ad?  As in, where did you have your first one - and the answer is "Benoni"?  So where did the race start - and the answer is Mossel Bay.... Could have been sexier, I suppose - but if it had to start somewhere, then I suppose that's better than Benoni.  And it was probably called something like "nice cave with good seafood and a view" back then.

But we digress: the fact that we all probably came from not 500 km from here, some 72 000 years ago (OK, some of us via detours which took in northern Europe), and yet are STILL arguing about "race" issues, simply boggles the mind.

Jellybean Malema thinks "minorities" should not control the financial cluster; the ANC leadership is at pains to point out its non-racial stance - which implies Malema is being racist.  Injustice Hlophe insults people for being white - Pius Langa, were you aware you are?? - and is justifiably called a racist.

And UCT uses race as a "surrogate for disdavantage" for entry purposes.

Racism is as racism does - and any policy which actively disadvantages any definable group of people because of the melanin content of their skin, is racism.  What makes an even bigger nonsense of the policy is the fact that there are kids out there right now, who are known in the Retroid circles, who can CHOOSE what they want to be in terms of the old "racial" classifications, to gain an advantage in entering this University.

And so it goes.

But isn't it wonderful, that in the middle of all this silliness and name- and race-labelling, that we can as humans point at one location, just down the coast, and say with some degree of assurance:

"We all came from there".