meme
A meme ( ) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural i ...
that developed out of an
e.tv
e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa. It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the country, following three channels that are operated by the sta ...
television interview, 7 April 2010, with André Visagie, former Secretary General of the far right group, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), and political analyst, Lebohang Pheko. The two were discussing race relations in South Africa in the aftermath of AWB leader
Eugène Terre'Blanche
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (, 31 January 1941Terre'Blanche's year of birth is alternately given as 1941 or 1944. The majority of sources indicates 1941; sources that claim 1944 as his year of birth includ''The Star''Broadcasting Complaints Commission received 19 complaints about Maroleng's handling of the issue but these complaints were rejected.
Antjie Krog, South African poet and academic, has expressed misgivings about the meme: "an Afrikaner and a black man's inability to use correct English has become the laughing stock of the country".Writing b(l)ack: the ab(use) of the English language in texts by two post-94 black South African authors " Phalafala, Portia Mahlodi (MA Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand) 13 August 2012