‘Kill whites’ puts Andile in trouble
Solidarity and DA to lay charges
Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama is in hot water for apparently encouraging blacks to kill white people.
Now the BLF leader’s party could face being excluded from participating for the very first time in the general elections next year.
This follows remarks at a BLF rally on Sunday in Potchefstroom, North West, where Mngxitama threatened to kill five white people for every black person killed. “They kill one of us, we will kill five white people. We will kill their children, we will kill the women, we will kill anything that we find on our way... We kill their children, we kill their women, we kill their dogs, we kill their cats, we kill anything that comes before us,” he said. Mngxitama also remarked on business tycoon Johann Rupert’s comments in an interview by Power FM about his taxi friends whom he said would defend him against anybody.
Rupert had mentioned during the two-hour interview that: “I also have my own army. When those red guys come they have got to go and remember the taxi association,” he said. Mngxitama said: “Now here is a message to Johann Rupert: pay the taxi industry bosses, but here is the deal, for each one person that is being killed by the taxi industry, we kill five white people.” Trade union Solidarity said it would lay a complaint against Mngxitama at the Independent
Electoral Commission (IEC) this week in a bid to prevent the party from participating in the elections. Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute, said they were made aware of Mngxitama’s threatening video yesterday.
“We are busy drafting our papers and by Friday we
should be able to officially submit our complaint to the IEC. We cannot have people in this day and age making such remarks and no action is taken against them, it is totally unacceptable.
“Despite the fact that Mngxitama’s pronouncements are becoming more radical, BLF is still invited to participate in the parliamentary debate about land expropriation,” said Mulder.
The DA also said it would lay a complaint against Mngxitama with the South Africa Human Rights Commission and the Equality Court for inciting violence against white people in the country.
“There is no place for racebased incitement of violence and those who engage in hate speech should be investigated and prosecuted with the full might of the law.
“We cannot turn a blind eye to or diminish the seriousness of Mngxitama’s naked racism, hate speech and incitement,” said DA national spokesperson Solly Malatsi yesterday. He said that the DA cannot allow Mngxitama’s comments and actions to go unchallenged and, therefore, institutions of the state empowered to investigate and prosecute on matters of this nature have a duty to act.
Mngxitama was not immediately available for comment yesterday when Sowetan attempted to contacted him.