DA reaction to ANC decision to appeal High Court judgement
What message is the ANC sending to South Africans and the world, when it appeals against a High Court ruling declaring the words "kill the farmer, kill the whites" to be hate speech?
There can only be one conclusion: that the ANC is justifying incitement to murder people on the basis of their race in the new South Africa.
This goes against every tenet of our rights based Constitution.
It is pure sophistry to suggest that this is part of a "culture". There are many aspects of the cultural history of all groups in South Africa that have no place in a rights-based democracy. Sexism and Racism were also parts of South Africa's culture, and today all democrats work together, from across the spectrum, to eradicate these evils.
Incitement to murder cannot be justified in any way and cannot be explained away as a metaphor.