F W De Klerk reports 45 social media posts for ‘racism against whites’

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F W De Klerk reports 45 social media posts for ‘racism against whites’

9:22 CAT | 17 Jan 2016

RDM News Wire

The F W de Klerk Foundation has ignited a new race row after it complained to the Human Rights Commission about “45 social media postings that incite extreme violence against white South Africans”.

The complaint follows complaints lodged against tweets by Penny Sparrow, who described blacks as ‘monkeys’ and other posts by economist Chris Hart and Gareth Cliff.

In a statement, the foundation said it “strongly condemned the recent racist remarks made by Penny Sparrow regarding black South Africans who made use of public beaches on New Year’s Day.”

But it went on to say, “an analysis of Facebook and Twitter messages shows that by far the most virulent and dangerous racism – expressed in the most extreme and violent language – has come from disaffected black South Africans. The messages are replete with threats to kill all whites – including children; to rape white women or to expel all whites from South Africa.”

The foundation cited Section 16 (2) of the constitution which said that the right to free expression “does not extend to propaganda for war; to Incitement to imminent violence; or to advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.”

It said that the Promotion of Equality and Prohibition of Unfair Discrimination Act stated that “no person may publish, propagate, advocate or communicate words based on one or more of the prohibited grounds, against any person, that could be construed to be hurtful; to be harmful or to incite harm; or to promote or propagate hatred.”

The foundation said it wanted the commission to “investigate and to report on the observance of human rights” in so far as these messages constitute hate speech in terms of section 16 (2) of the Constitution and Section 10 of PEPUDA.

Source: RDM News Wire