Foyer group AfriForum has referred to as for worldwide sanctions towards Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) chief Julius Malema over the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant.
The calls comes simply days after the Constitutional Court docket dismissed the group’s bid to enchantment a ruling by the Supreme Court docket of Enchantment (SCA) that the battle track doesn’t represent hate speech.
WHY DOES AFRIFORUM WANT SANCTIONS AGAINST JULIUS MALEMA?
In a video shared on X (previously Twitter), AfriForum chief Kallie Kriel shared that the foyer group has began with a course of to request governments internationally to take punitive actions towards Malema and those that make themselves responsible of human rights violations by chanting Kill the Boer.
Kriel stated they’re additionally requesting governments to make use of diplomatic channels to request the South African authorities to sentence the requires the homicide of Afrikaners and farmers unconditionally.
“This worldwide motion is required after all as a result of the South African Constitutional Court docket discovered that the nation’s Structure doesn’t defend Afrikaners and farmers towards these requires violence towards them.
“On this marketing campaign, we may also unfold a file that has been drawn by our authorized crew. This file would present how Julius Malema and his colleagues abuse human rights, secondly, how they freely assist terror organisations, and thirdly that they’re accused of very critical circumstances of corruption,” Kriel stated.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLDS PREVIOUS RULINGS ON ‘KILL THE BOER’ CHANT
Following the ConCourt ruling, the EFF stated the best court docket within the land has confirmed what they’ve stated all alongside: the AfriForum case was a frivolous and cynical try and weaponise the authorized system to distort historical past and silence Black resistance.
The get together stated AfriForum, has repeatedly pushed the false narrative of white victimhood in a rustic the place Black individuals proceed to undergo the legacy of land dispossession, financial exclusion, and systemic
oppression by the hands of white minority rule.
“Their efforts to criminalise a liberation track, one deeply rooted within the combat towards the brutal regime that oppressed Black individuals for many years, are a part of their broader undertaking to rewrite historical past, erase their very own crimes, and paint themselves as victims,” the get together stated.
‘AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL’
In February, tech-billionaire Elon Musk additionally referred to as for Malema to be declared a global legal and likewise took to X to query why President Cyril Ramaphosa had not taken motion towards Malema “for calling for the genocide of white individuals”.
In one other submit, Musk referred to as for sanctions towards Malema and for the firebrand politician to be declared a global legal.
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