Wessels Report a human rights violation
AfriForum Youth today expressed their concern regarding the gross discriminatory utterances contained in the Wessels Report of the Potchefstroom Campus of the North West University, which has leaked out.
The Wessels Report forms part of the final council report which was submitted to the Minister of Higher Education last week.
The Wessels Report refers to the "problem" at the NWU as students who come from "Afrikaner-based" high schools, and makes the recommendation that a process of "normalisation" be "enforced" where Afrikaners are "diluted" and "removed".
"The information in the Wessels Report clearly indicates that the report is discriminatory towards Afrikaners. AfriForum Youth is still attempting to get hold of the final report to confirm whether the racist and discriminatory utterances in the report, which attacks the human dignity of Afrikaners as a community, are taken into consideration," Henk Maree, National Chairman of AfriForum Youth, said.
"The content of the Wessels Report is a human rights issue which needs attention before any further steps can be taken in the probe. We cannot accept a South Africa in which the identity of communities is discredited," Maree said.