Coloured representation in Cape Town City Council upper management

While reading IOL recently, I stumbled across this article with regards to the representation of Coloured people in an upper management team assembled by the mayor of Cape Town. The story went as follows:

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Appointments not about race, says Mfeketo

The City of Cape Town has been accused by a top staff member of throwing out its employment equity plan with the appointment of a new team of mainly white and ethnic African directors.

Announcing her top-level team last week, mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo said last week that a second-tier (director level) deployment would reflect the demographics of the city.

But the new appointment list is made up of 19 ethnic Africans, 14 whites, three Indians and seven coloured people. The top-level team, the Ikhwezi team, consists of five Africans, two whites and two coloured individuals.
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In a province with a majority Coloured population, is this not indicative of how dismissively the Coloured community is dealt with and treated as a whole?

What if this was the representation of Indians within the Durban city council, surely there would’ve been an uproar and lines would’ve been jammed on Lotus FM and The Tribune Herald, with the Indian community demanding equitable representation in their public management structures? Not so in this case. A memo was issued from the mayor’s office stating: “Mfeketo said: “We appointed the best candidates to every position. The city is happy with the racial diversity of the team. We don’t want to be drawn into a racial witch hunt.”

What stuck out for me was “We don’t want to be drawn into a racial witch hunt.” Had there been an under representation of Black people, can you imagine the furore that would’ve resulted? What’s your view? Discuss it in our forums.