Forcing taking the knee unconstitutional
THE threats by Minister of Sport Nathi Mthethwa, aimed at athletes who do not want to take a knee for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) ideology, are unconstitutional and wrong.
We feel the minister’s statements concerning certain rugby players are unacceptable.
South Africa’s Constitution makes provision for freedom of association and if the minister thinks he can force sport participants, or anyone else, to take a knee for BLM, he is in effect subjugating them to Marxism.
BLM is nothing but a Marxist movement and every South African has the constitutional right to refuse to kneel for an unacceptable ideology.
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) encourages every person who does not want to take a knee to instead take a strong stand on the matter and to invoke the Constitution.
The founders of the BLM movement are self-confessed, radical neo-Marxists who have admitted outright that they are determined to destroy Western values and are openly promoting an anti-white campaign.
The George Floyd incident in America raises the question why the same fuss was not made about the death of Collins Khosa, a black man who was beaten to death by black soldiers in South Africa.
Absolutely nothing came of Khosa’s death, no fuss and no unrest. Is it possible that the reason for this is that it was an incident of black-on-black violence?
We are strongly opposed to any form of police brutality and racism. That includes any legislation or institution that uses race as premise. In our view, that makes the legislation or institution racist per se, just like all the laws regarding AA (affirmative action) and BEE in South Africa.
Young black people in the country consider it an insult to be appointed merely due to AA.
They say that it makes them feel inferior as they want to be able to compete with others on equal footing.
We will not kneel before anyone or to promote any movement.