{"id":5232,"date":"2015-05-13T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.lonelyviking.dev\/tukssowhite-afriforum-youth-grateful-investigation\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:56:45","slug":"tukssowhite-afriforum-youth-grateful-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/tukssowhite-afriforum-youth-grateful-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"#TuksSoWhite: AfriForum Youth grateful for investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth wants to thank the University of Pretoria (UP) for undertaking to investigate the South African Students Congress\u2019 (Sasco) #TuksSoWhite campaign and take action if necessary.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The social media campaign on <em>Facebook<\/em> and <em>Twitter<\/em> makes, amongst other things, statements like \u201cwhite students do not even experience loadshedding\u201d and \u201cAfrikaaner students still think they run this country, reality is they don&#8217;t, they remain a minority (which is a fact) and the university should not be catering for a minority\u201d.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rochelle Oosthuyse, Spokesperson for AfriForum Youth Tuks, says these statements are generally perceived as false and racist.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting with the President of the Student Representative Council (SRC), Mosibudi Rebotile Rasethaba, he said that white students must see the #TuksSoWhite campaign in context and that he fully supports the campaign. He added that a #TuksSoBlack campaign would however be perceived as racist by the SRC.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting yesterday, AfriForum Youth and UP agreed to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The policies of organisations like Sasco, PYA (Progressive Youth Alliance) and ARF (Anti-Racism Forum) must be investigated urgently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Action must be taken against the involved organisations, specifically Sasco and ARF, regarding their statements in the #TuksSoWhite campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There must be an investigation regarding the involvement of the SRC and more specifically Rasethaba and his support of the #TuksSoWhite campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The SRC must apologise publically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWe want to thank the management for their cooperation and urge students to have mutual respect and recognition for one another,\u201d says Oosthuyse.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth wants to thank the University of Pretoria (UP) for undertaking to investigate the South African Students Congress\u2019 (Sasco) #TuksSoWhite campaign and take action&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":[465,464],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements","category-perfervid","tag-racism"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":465,"label":"Media statements"},{"value":464,"label":"Perfervid"}],"post_tag":[{"value":768,"label":"Racism"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum Jeug","author_link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/author\/afriforum-jeug\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":465,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":465,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":465,"category_count":222,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0},{"term_id":464,"name":"Perfervid","slug":"perfervid","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":464,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":153,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":464,"category_count":153,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Perfervid","category_nicename":"perfervid","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":768,"name":"Racism","slug":"racism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":768,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":20,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}