Rainbow Nation Navigation: A Practical Guide to South African cultures caused quite a bit of outrage on social media, especially among coloured twitter. Why? Its navigation of “coloured culture” was so inflammatory that the resulting backlash led to the lead author and publisher, Paula Marais, saying it would be revised, according to Huffington Post.
Marais, who has since deleted her Twitter account, but said that the chapter was based on interviews with people from the coloured community and that each section was written and then checked by people from that culture.
Users on Twitter and Facebook were up in arms about the content of the book: