Human rights commission to charge Edward Zuma for hate speech
The SAHRC, which the president’s son called ‘a vile dog’, is taking him to the Equality Court for his ‘disturbing and offensive statements’
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to take steps to criminally charge the president’s son‚ Edward Zuma‚ for what it called "disturbing and offensive statements" he made in an open letter that it believes constitutes hate speech.The announcement comes on the heels of the news that Zuma had finally apologised for his vitriolic open letter in which he attacked senior ANC leaders Pravin Gordhan and Derek Hanekom.ANC KwaZulu-Natal spokesman Mdumiseni Ntuli confirmed on Thursday morning that Zuma had apologised for calling the former finance minister "a stooge of white monopoly capital" and the former tourism minister a "white Afrikaner askari".When he heard that the SAHRC was investigating him over the statements, which it said promoted "hatred based on race"‚ Zuma described the human rights watchdog as a "vile dog unleashed to maul the black majority‚ to manage them‚ to sanitise their history and to keep them in check when expressing their history and articulating thei...
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