ANC rejects right wing allegations of hate speech
13 January 2015
The ANC Western Cape has noted the facetious allegations by groups such as the Broederbond and Freedom Front (FF) who fabricate petty political positions of criticism to have something to say about the ANC's successful 103rd birthday celebration over the weekend in Cape Town stadium.
Both parties came up with legalistic and technical issues to threaten the ANC with all sorts of actions, including laying human rights charges against the ANC for president Jacob Zuma's reference to Jan van Riebeeck's arrival and woes for indigenous people in South Africa.
ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman says: "The ANC rejects insinuations that this is hate speech or aimed to alienate whites. In fact, it is interesting that both groups on cue came up with similar postulation!
"It is also interesting that both claims to speak on behalf of all white and Afrikaner people - a group that is not uniform and many of which are not part of the offspring of the Dutch Van Riebeeck or do not revere him as the founder of that group or the nation!
"It is furthermore obvious that they try to drum up emotions against the ANC who is a non-racial and diverse organisation with a growing white supporter base. By their statement it is obvious that they are only interested in protecting white privilege and are still in utter denial of the factual reality that many problems came with the arrival of those European vessels carrying the likes of Van Riebeeck.
"Besides killer diseases they also brought lethal weapons with which people were killed, subjugated and genocide was wielded against numerous locals. The most evident were the many wars and clashes by which thousands were mowed down like animals. They did not bring land here, but regularly fought for it. It is part of the politics of deception by right wingers who now hide behind the fair dispensation and constitution put in place to bring a better life to all - including some whites longing for the past and now enjoying legal protection.
"Many of these people, who now fight the ANC driven by old hate motives, are beneficiaries if not descendants of those that could have caused that genocide and now post liberation in 1994 refuse to take any primary responsibility for what they and their forefathers were part of. Many of them take reconciliation for granted and do not want to deal with social justice! It is they that are quick on the draw to hide behind the protection of laws put in place by the ANC."
The ANC contemplates to take the institutional racism in the Western Cape under premier Helen Zille, Cape Town and other enclaves such as the FF's 'homeland' Orania to the equality court.
"Perhaps the time has come to legally test the many attempts to maintain white privilege at the expense of people of colour and the majority of our nation at large by the DA and its cohorts that work hand-in-glove with it, like the FF and Broederbond,"Fransman added.
Statement issued by ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman, January 13 2015
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