* This story has been updated to reflect that the post appeared on the Facebook page called I Love Parkhurst, Greenside, Craighall Park, Parktown North & Emmerentia and not on the I Love Parkhurst page.
Johannesburg - A young woman who asked for work on the “I Love Parkhurst, Greenside, Craighall Park, Parktown North & Emmerentia” closed group Facebook page because her mother needed food instead found herself described as a “black snake” and a “houtkop”.
Amanda Durand Michau, who claims she lives in Paris, France, and runs a home industry, responded that the young woman must call a farmer.
In Afrikaans, she wrote: “Black snake begs for food on Facebook and then I tell her she must phone a farmer!”
After a barrage of criticism from members of the group, she responded: “Now I’m famous because I said I don’t feed houtkoppe.”
She later wrote: “Kill a farmer, go hungry. And that’s that.”
The administrator of the group deleted all her comments, but Michau took to her page, writing in Afrikaans: “They want to eat but they make farmers dead. Wtf now they are begging online nogal. I won’t feed them.”
Parkhurst group member Dianne Bayley reported her to Facebook, telling her: “What you have done is considered hate speech, and is unconstitutional.
“I’d get a lawyer if I were you. Penny Sparrow also thought she could get away with disgusting racism.”
Another user, Alison Sutcliffe, wrote: “What an atrocious excuse for a human. Apartheid is over, Ouma. You need to wake up.”
In a post, Facebook user Sammy Parrish described Michau as a “revolting, hateful human!” But Michau termed the response from the “kugels of Parkhurst” the “best soapie, which I in years couldn’t write”.
She insisted she could write what she wanted on her own Facebook page.
“I am not hiding! I see and read all the comments. I have a right just like any other in this country and I’ll be dammed if you take it from me! My voice gave you freedom! I can take it back! My comments are now on Twitter, the radio and f*** knows what else. I won’t withdraw my comments. Kill a farmer, go hungry!”
She later wrote that there were 76 notifications on her timeline.“I got enough k*k today, I’m going to lie down, otherwise there’s a hit on my life.”