Habib tweet ‘extreme’
UPROAR: COMPARES AFRIFORUM HEAD HONCHOS TO HITLER, AMIN
While garnering international opposition to land expropriation, they meet ultraconservative Trump advisor.
Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib is facing a backlash for comparing AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel and deputy CEO Ernst Roets to Adolf Hitler and Idi Amin.
The two AfriForum head honchos have gone overseas to drum up international support for the fight against “racist theft” – land expropriation without compensation.
They have been tweeting regularly about their campaign to warn investors about developments in SA. When they tweeted about their joy at running into conservative Republican John Robert Bolton, the US national security advisor to President Donald Trump, it was all a bit much for Habib, who commented that they disgusted him.
“Your associations in the US prove what disgusting human beings you truly are. You are an embarrassment to SA and its constitution.
“Every nation has somebody who reflects its worse side. The Germans had Hitler, the Ugandans had Amin, apartheid SA had Verwoed and current SA has the two of you,” he tweeted.
Some supported Habib on Twitter, but he has also received a lot of flak from people who accuse him of going too far for comparing Roets and Kriel to mass-murdering demagogues.
Kriel had posted a picture of them with Bolton, writing: “Great turn of events: With a bit of luck @ ErnstRoets and I met John Robert Bolton, US National Security Advisor to @realDonaldTrump. We also gave him a copy of Ernst’s new #KillTheBoerBook on #FarmMurders & #ExpropriationWithoutCompensation in SA.”
They earlier announced they had information on land ownership, as well as a memorandum on expropriation of land without compensation to present to “investors” abroad.
The lobby group also planned to provide new information on land ownership in SA. The group believes the motion to expropriate property without compensation is based on a flawed state-driven land audit “soaked with fabrications and methodical errors”.
Their reasoning is that arguments for the land expropriation policy must be so more black people can own property, but it appeared that, according to the ANC and EFF policy documents, the intention is for the government to own the land and not individuals.