The civil rights organisation AfriForum\u2019s hate speech case against the leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is on the roll at the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg from today until 18 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AfriForum lodged this complaint in October 2020 after supporters of the EFF sang \u201cKill the Boer, Kill the farmer\u201doutside the Magistrate\u2019s Court in Senekal where the accused murderers of farm manager Brendin Horner were tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this occasion Ndlozi also made inflammatory statements that, in AfriForum\u2019s statements, amount to the incitement of arson. The leader of the EFF, Malema, was added to this case because he was also present at this event and also because he is already bound by a court ruling in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malema was found guilty of hate speech in 2011 for singing the chanting song Dubul\u2019ibhunu <\/em>(Shoot the Boer). In this case the Supreme Court of Appeals also issued an order in which Malema is prevented from singing similar songs and that he must discourage his supporters from singing such songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ernst Roets, Head of Policy and Action at AfriForum and the author of the book Kill the Boer, <\/em>testifies on behalf of AfriForum in this matter. \u201cAfriForum lodges this complaint in terms of the Equality Act, but it is requested of the court, among other things, that the case also be referred for criminal prosecution. In AfriForum\u2019s pleadings the organisation asks for an order that Malema, Ndlozi and the EFF have committed hate speech, that they must apologise publicly and that they must pay a fine to an organisation that strives to combat hate speech,\u201d Roets says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfriForum is an avid campaigner for freedom of speech but at the same time AfriForum\u2019s position is that actual and clear cases of hate speech must be fought. This is a clear case of hate speech because it deals with a group that is targeted on the basis of identity and against whom violence is incited,\u201d Roets concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The civil rights organisation AfriForum\u2019s hate speech case against the leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":171912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[800,810],"tags":[426,42],"class_list":["post-195115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-flash","tag-afriforum","tag-wereldwyd-en"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":800,"label":"News"},{"value":810,"label":"News flash"}],"post_tag":[{"value":426,"label":"AfriForum"},{"value":42,"label":"Wereldwyd"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ernst-1024x641.jpg",1024,641,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum W\u00eareldwyd","author_link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/author\/dune-vanwykafriforum-co-za\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":800,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":800,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":494,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":800,"category_count":494,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":810,"name":"News flash","slug":"news-flash","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":810,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":800,"count":343,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":810,"category_count":343,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News flash","category_nicename":"news-flash","category_parent":800}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":426,"name":"AfriForum","slug":"afriforum","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":426,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":423,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":42,"name":"Wereldwyd","slug":"wereldwyd-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ernst.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ernst.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}