AfriForum Youth intends to oppose the South African Human Rights Commission\u2019s (HRC) proposed \u201cdiversity training\u201d in schools. This opposition is not only due to the fact that staff and time are lacking in the timetables, but also that this \u201ctraining\u201d is nothing but ideological indoctrination of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The HRC claims that this \u201ctraining\u201d is necessary to fight racism. Yet the same HRC earlier in a ruling found that it is not hate speech if Julius Malema romanticises violence against minorities, because he is black and because black people (in the HRC\u2019s analysis) cannot be measured by the same standards as white people .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen it comes to racism, the Human Rights Commission is part of the problem, not the solution. We cannot allow children to be indoctrinated with this kind of ideological activism,\u201d says Ren\u00e9 van der Vyver, spokesperson for AfriForum Youth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Fatima Chohan, Deputy Chairperson of the HRC, said earlier at a media conference (July 13) that, \u201cone must remember that discriminatory policies have been applied for hundreds of years to the point of being culturally ingrained.\u201d This is just one of the signs that indicate to AfriForum Youth that there will be a specific ideological undertone in this school subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cChohan\u2019s remark shows that this school subject will be built on double standards, such as that racism has been \u2018culturally embedded\u2019. The prospect that the school subject will develop an appreciation for others\u2019 cultures and traditions sounds rosy, but unfortunately, we have learned over the past three decades that the government values \u200b\u200bonly one so-called \u2018ANC culture\u2019,\u201d says Van der Vyver. According to the youth organisation, schools and ideological training are not a place for the state to interfere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSouth African learners will not need diversity training if the state creates a culture in which there is recognition and respect for each other\u2019s different communities. To succeed, the state must allow learners, among other things, access to mother-tongue education and it must not be a right that people have to fight for all the time, as the Afrikaans community has experienced for years,\u201d concludes Alana Bailey, principal of Cultural Affairs at AfriForum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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