The SA Human Rights Commission

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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Elana Barkhuizen faced the media for the first time since the Schweizer-Reneke segregation controversy hit the headlines, and she’s got her fightback planned.

Elana Barkhuizen, the teacher at the centre of the Schweizer-Reneke racial controversy, has spoken to the media for the first time since she was blamed for segregating Grade R learners by the colour of their skin.

She was represented by Afrikaner trade union Solidariteit (Solidarity), who have come out fighting for their client. They state that Barhuizen wasn’t the teacher of that class, and the children’s seating plan had nothing to do with race – a factor which they’ve promised to take legal action against.

Dirk Hermann, a representative for Solidarity, told the media that politicians must be held to account for forcing trauma upon the school teacher. He was particularly miffed with DA Youth League Leader Luyolo Mphithi, who turned up to the school last Thursday after a pho
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