DA reveals that Khampepe report’s hit job on Afrikaans is based on only one witness interview
10 November 2022
Please find attached English and Afrikaans soundbites by Dr Leon Schreiber MP.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) can today reveal that the Khampepe Commission at Stellenbosch University (SU) – which equated the Afrikaans language with racism in its findings – only interviewed a grand total of one bona fide witness during its proceedings.
This shocking revelation is contained on page 28 of the report, where retired judge Sisi Khampepe admits that, despite providing “several reminders” inviting students and staff to participate in confidential interviews about alleged problems on campus, only 22 voluntary submissions were ever received. With over 33 000 students and staff members, this means that less than 0.7% of the Stellenbosch University (SU) community were sufficiently concerned about problems on campus to even bother approaching the Commission.
It is thus based on only one bona fide witness interview that Khampepe decided that Afrikaans must be abolished, while also characterising the town of Stellenbosch as being “home to many conservative, typically White, Afrikaners who bear racist and other bigoted beliefs and attitudes.”