Zuma in trouble for his Jan van Riebeeck statement.
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In a development that has got the ANC ducking and diving, the opposition Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) has laid a complaint against President Jacob Zuma, accusing him of hate speech, it has been confirmed. According to the South African Human Rights Commission, the FF Plus has complained that what Jacob Zuma said in a statement attributed to him is not only historically incorrect but was also hate speech which sought to portray all other non-black South Africans as not being indigenous to South Africa.
The problem seems to have emanated from a speech that was made by Zuma at an ANC fundraising rally last Friday when he said: “All the trouble began in 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape”. In the view of the FF Plus, the statement generalised negatively about the descendants of Jan van Riebeeck and white people in particular, and that the statement demonised Afrikaners based on an incorrect historical view, this was confirmed by the South African Human Rights Commission spokesperson, Isaac Mangena.
Confirming the charge they had laid against Jacob Zuma, the FF Plus spokesperson, Anton Alberts said that his party had felt compelled to lay the charge against Zuma because he had “referred to whites and wherever whites engaged with black people, they engaged in aggressive acts and warfare and displacement of black people”. He said that this could easily be construed as hate speech which sought to demonise the descendants of Jan van Riebeeck, adding that this was based on an incorrect historical fact.
According to spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, the South African Human Rights Commission was in the process of trying to assess the complaint and to see if it has a mandate to pursue it. He added, however that it was not clear how long this process would take and would not be drawn into commenting on what the FF Plus course of action would be if SAHRC could not help them.
While Mac Maharaj of the Presidency would not comment on the matter, pointing rather to the party organs as the speech is reported to have been made at an ANC event, the ANC publicity crew could not be reached for comment.
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What is new. This moron will continue to spew utter rubbish up to the end.
... and only whites can be racist? I think not, this individual is the most racist of all, no one nobody respect him or his party after these blatant racist remarks, yet again.
And he is being taken task for his comments about women. What possessed the ANC to stick with this freak?
It all began there should we nw b afraid to point where our problems hv begun when our people were called refugees in cape wher was ff+ and thier. Hate speech comments its our time now infact zuma should hv commentd more than what he dis
Not to worry mnr Zuma, you are the President.... :O
So what about the carnage that ensued when the Zulus pitched up in South Africa?
The most glaring historical inaccuracy in all these arguments is that blacks owned "South Africa" before the whites came!!! There was NO SUCH place as South Africa, no borders, no concept of a country, no government, nothing, just various groups speaking different languages scattered around a vast landscape at full on war with each other, butchering each other at every chance. So the concept that whites stole South Africa is absolute rubbish!!
White women are nice.The nice clean ones.
Troll alert!
With this speech JZ confirmed his viewpoint towards whites. Does this reflect the viewpoint of the ANC? Is this why farm attacks are of such low priority to government? Mr Zuma how do you value the lifes of us whites? Did you finally reveal your true nature?
our president needs too be educated, and understand that his people are not natives too this country his from the ingonni tribe form central Africa
those racists and incompetents,Comrades Blade Nzimande of the SACP and Tony Ehrenreich of COSATU; Must have puked out that part of SA's illiterate clown king's speech?