"We do not want apartheid-like policies to exist in a fair and democratic Malaysia”

- Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim

COMMENT | For the record, anyone who reads my columns understands that I do not like to use the term apartheid to describe the situation in Malaysia.

Having known apartheid activists, violent and nonviolent, you do not truly understand the dehumanisation that went on under the apartheid system until you have spoken to people who resisted the system and looked into their eyes.

Furthermore, since we have non-Malay political operatives who are part of the system – until Abdul Hadi Awang takes over of course – and have supported not only the system bu...