Is Andile Mngxitama’s ‘kill whites’ comment hate speech? HRC will investigate
Lobby group AfriForum has instructed its legal team to prepare court documents to lay a charge of hate speech against the Black First Land First leader
The South African Human Rights Commission said on Monday that it had received multitudes of complaints through its social media platforms against Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama. "We have the complaints, but we can't prejudge. We have to subject them to a particular assessment process to determine if there are human rights violations. "I don't want to prejudice the outcome of the assessment process," spokesperson Buang Jones said on Monday afternoon. Mngxitama came under fire at the weekend for his latest controversial remarks about the killing of white people.
During a rally in Potchefstroom, North West, on Saturday, Mngxitama threatened to kill five white people for every black person killed. "You kill one of us, we will kill five of you. We will kill their children, we will kill their women, we will kill anything that we find on our way," Mngxitama said...
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