Posts tagged with 'apartheid-era'

 

MEC for Education racist rant: FF Plus requests investigation into Lesufi derogatory statements when he referred to white learners as “klein basies

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As the first in a series of steps to be taken against Panyaza Lesufi, the Gauteng MEC for Education, the FF Plus, on 18 June 2019, officially requested the Gauteng Legislature Integrity Commissioner to launch an investigation into his recent derogatory statements concerning white learners.

The FF Plus’s complaint is based on Lesufi being in contempt of South Africa’s Constitution, which prohibits any form of racism, and two clauses of the Gauteng Legislature Code of Conduct, which stipulates that members of the Legislature must be worthy of their office and that they should at all times act honourably and with integrity.

The derogatory remark Lesufi made last week by referring to white learners as “klein basies” in front of an audience while he was explaining his department’s operational plans for the year concerning mother tongue education is absolutely unacceptable.

The term “klein basies” is clearly a reference to the Apartheid
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Victims of apartheid demand R1m each in reparations since they were wounded by the era – Compensation will bring peace, rebuild and restore their dignity

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A crowd of victims of apartheid gathered at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, demanding an urgent meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The group of aged people, with many using crutches to help them walk, was led by activist Nomarussia Bonase of the Khulumani Support Group – an organisation which supports apartheid-era victims and activists.

“We are from Gauteng but what we have brought here is a mandate and the demands of the Khulumani Support Group nationally. It’s now 25 years and we’re still on this journey, trying to bring our government to talk about our demands. We are a wounded society. We were wounded by apartheid. After 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed, and that commission was meant to bring peace, rebuild and restore the dignity of humans violated by apartheid,” Bonase told African News Agency.

“During the TRC people who had been victims of apartheid said t
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A quarter of a century later, after FW de Klerk and Tutu set up the Presidents Fund, thousands of victims of the apartheid era are still waiting for compensation, fingers are now pointing to ANC regime who might have exploited the funds

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The victims would have qualify for aid from the Fund that included assistance for housing, health services and proper education. However, they are still waiting for the support. It seems like the ANC-regime just forgot about these so called victims and exploited the funds for the party’s own benefit.

It is almost a quarter of a century after FW de Klerk and Tutu shook hands on the matter, but now thousands still wait to receive a helping hand.

In 2003, the so-called Presidents Fund was established to assist the victims, but it appears that the ANC government does not fulfill their promises just as in the past, except when they can rob the whites of their land, one has victim apparently said.

There is an expectation among victims that the government should give them a one-time assistance payment of R30,000. Calculations show that such a payment will be to the thousands of victims, Billions of Rand, who can not do the bankrupt country withou
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