Solidarity announces legal action against BLF

13 February 2019

The trade union Solidarity will lay charges at the SAPS and the Equality Court against members of the Black First Land First (BLF) on behalf of several parents of victims of Hoërskool Driehoek’s disaster. Solidarity will also lay a charge at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and request that the BLF be banned from participating in die upcoming election.

This follows after BLF members, among other comments, stated that the death of three children was a godly intervention and that ‘three future problems’ have been eliminated.

A parent of Hoërskool Driehoek will read a statement on behalf of some of the victims’ parents and the community at the media conference.

According to Dr Dirk Hermann, Chief Operations Officer of Solidarity, the trade union will lay a charge of crimen injuria at the SAPD on behalf of some of the parents. The charge will focus on the violation of human dignity which includes racial hate incitement. The charge at the Equality Court will focus on hate speech.

“We cannot allow a fringe figure’s racial hatred to be normalised. The statements of the BLF have reached a extremely low point where hate speech is concerned and if we left it at that, we regard it is acceptable,” Hermann said.

Issued by Francois Redelinghuys, Spokesperson, Solidarity, 13 February 2019