AfriForum Youth condemns the University of Pretoria\u2019s (UP) failure to take action against the EFF Student Command (EFFSC UP), a registered student association, who are guilty of hate speech. AfriForum Youth on 19 April sent a letter to Prof. Caroline Nicholson, registrar of the UP, \u00a0to demand that action be taken against the EFFSC UP. The letter provided damning evidence of a letter in which the EFFSC UP threatens other students on campus with words that, according to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), are incitement to violence and hate speech. However, the UP failed to act in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The EFFSC UP was fuming after the management of student accommodation in the Hatfield Square put regulations in place to ensure that men and women can enjoy privacy when using the bathroom facilities. They turned it into a racial issue by blaming \u201cracist white girls from Erika\u201d for the \u201ccriminalisation of black men\u201d who lives in the same building as them. The EFFSC UP, in addition to several racist statements, cited the controversial statement \u2013 which landed Malema in court once again \u2013 as a threat in an e-mail on 12 March: \u201cI am not scared of killing. A revolutionary is a walking killing machine. If a need arises, I will kill, especially in defence of my people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cIt is unacceptable that the University of Pretoria fails to act against students who are guilty of hate speech and endanger the safety of other students. There are clear double standards maintained at universities. Strict action must be taken against any student who incites violence and the university management must fulfil their responsibility to ensure the safety of all students and tackle these types of offenses with the necessary seriousness,\u201d says Ren\u00e9 van der Vyver, spokesperson for AfriForum Youth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, will face SAHRC on 26 February 2024 for the same statement in the Equality Court regarding the incitement of violence and hate speech during his speech in the Western Cape on 16 October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AfriForum Youth launched a petition in June, after its Tuks members\u2019 concerns about this matter went unheeded, which resulted in several complaints from students being sent to the UP registrar\u2019s email address. Afterwards, the youth organisation was informed that the registrar\u2019s office had already referred this case to the Transformation Office in April to be investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThere is a defining silence from the UP, although AfriForum Youth asked almost five months ago how action was taken against the EFFSC, as well as that the EFFSC UP should be deregistered as a student association. The obvious conclusion is therefore that the UP is apathetic about hate speech that is specifically committed by the EFFSC,\u201d concludes Van der Vyver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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