The South African Human Rights Commission will not pursue two complaints it received about the controversial column that led to writer David Bullard being fired from the Sunday Times, spokesperson Vincent Moaga said on Wednesday.
This is because the newspaper has apologised, he said.
”We received two complaints about Mr Bullard’s column but because the Sunday Times apologised, we will not be taking it any further.”
Bullard was fired by editor Mondli Makhanya after writing a column entitled ”Uncolonised Africa wouldn’t know what it was missing” — which described a hypothetical South Africa, had the ”evil white man” not come ”to disturb the rustic idyll of the early black settlers”.
In its apology, the newspaper said: ”The Sunday Times subscribes to non-racialism and is committed to building a South Africa based on the values enshrined in the Constitution.
”We will not be a platform for views which undermine the values of our publication … We apologise to readers who were offended by the column.”
Moaga said it is enough that the newspaper, and not Bullard, apologised, because he was writing as a columnist for it.
Bullard was not immediately available for comment. — Sapa