Edward Zuma ordered to apologise to SA for hate speech and give two schools R30,000 each
As part of a settlement reached with the Human Rights Commission, Zuma must submit a written apology, which the commission will then publish
Edward Zuma has seven days to apologise to the South African public and pay two schools R30,000 each for hate speech he made against Derek Hanekom and Pravin Gordhan. The South African Human Rights Commission applied to the Durban Equality Court in 2017 to find Zuma guilty of hate speech and fined him R100,000 for an open letter to the pair. In the letter, the son of former president Jacob Zuma described Gordhan and Hanekom as an "antimajoritarian sell-out minority in the ANC who have brazenly and unabashedly spoken out against [then president] Zuma on various white-monopoly media platforms". He stated Gordhan was one of the most corrupt cadres who‚ like 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 submitted that Zuma’s utterances painted the pair as proponents of white minority privilege and opponents of so...
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