The SA Human Rights Commission has found that EFF leader Julius Malema’s statement that “we are not calling for the slaughtering of white people” did not amount to hate speech.
It also found that Malema did not violate the rights of white people in making the statement.
The commission, therefore, dismissed a complaint by the FW de Klerk Foundation in this regard.
The foundation had complained to the commission that Malema’s statements incited violence against white people and constituted hate speech.
Speaking outside the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court after the postponement of a court case against him in November 2016, Malema said: “They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people – at least for now. What we are calling for is the peaceful occupation of the land and we don’t owe anyone
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