Edward Zuma does not understand what hate speech is, Human Rights Commission says
Edward Zuma’s response to an allegation against him before the Equality Court shows he lacks an understanding of hate speech, the South African Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. The commission wants the court to find former president Jacob Zuma’s son guilty of hate speech and fine him R100,000 for comments he made in an open letter to Derek Hanekom and Pravin Gordhan in 2017. In the letter, Zuma described Gordhan and Hanekom as “anti-majoritarian sell-out minority in the ANC who have brazenly and unabashedly spoken out against Zuma on various white monopoly media platforms”. He said Gordhan was one of the most corrupt cadres who‚ like [Mahatma] Gandhi‚ “sees black South Africans as low class k…...s”‚ while Hanekom was a “white askari who will do anything to be an obstacle to radical economic transformation and to defend white monopoly privileges”. The commission’s KwaZulu-Natal manager, Tanuja Munnoo, said the younger Zuma had failed to provide a defence to the hate-speech ch...
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