A Botswana newspaper columnist who has backed Jacob Zuma to become president so he could “distribute white women” among his supporters has outraged some people who have branded the column as “sexist”, “racist” and “hate speech”.

The offending column under the heading “President Zuma will sort out White People” was published in the Sunday Standard in Gaborone.

Loose Canon said Zuma as president would address the wrongs of the past.

He berated white people for complaining about their loss of privilege, affirmative action and crime and said “they should count themselves lucky they were not shot on the day of liberation. Perhaps it’s not too late to hang a few whites… just to remind them who is in charge”.

“Zuma can have one or two white women himself and then distribute the rest ‘to his loyal supporters’ - including Loose Canon himself,” he wrote.

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