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ANC tramples name-list of murdered farmers

Julius Malema threatens to have police shoot dead Afrikaner youth-group protestors

March 20 2010 – Angry ANC-officials tore up the name-lists of several thousand murdered white farm-attack victims – then threw the documents in the gutter and trampled on them in front of their Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg during a vicious confrontation with a small group of peaceful Afrikaner protestors. A day earlier, ANC youth league leader Julius Malema had also threatened to have the Afrikaner protestors shot down if they dared to show up…

Afrikaners try to hand list of murdered farmers to Julius Malema police not well pleasedThe small delegation of about 100 Afrikaners which arrived at the ANC headquarters on Friday was led by Afriforum Youth forum leader Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s managing head Kallie Kriel,  (left – throwing their petition and name-lists of murdered Afrikaner farmers across the heads of a wall of cops) and the Afrikaans singer/activists Steve Hofmeyr, Sean Else and Gerrie Pretorius.

A day earlier, four Afriforum members held a personal meeting with Malema his office to arrange their delegation the following day – but after Malema had angrily demanded that they drop the formal hate-speech charges against him, he also threatened to ‘have the same thing happen to you as did with the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1994 (when 31 IFP protestors were shot dead and 300 were injured).

On Friday, the small group of peaceful Afrikaner protestors were met by a double-wall of grim-faced black cops who refused them any access to the building.

In a meeting between Roets and Malema a day earlier --  the latter had made pre-conditions before he would meet the small group of Afrikaners – demanding that they withdraw their official charge of hate-speech in connection with his constant public repetitions of the hate-speech chant “Kill the Boer’. The Afrikaners however refused to withdraw their formal charge with the SA Human Rights Commission. Malema then refused them access to Luthuli house and threatened Roets: “If you protest at Luthuli House tomorrow, the same thing which happened to the Inkatha Freedom Party (in 1994 at the building then named Shell House, when nineteen IFP-members were murdered by ANC-security guards) will also happen to you, Roets said he an d three other Afriforum members were told by Malema.

When Roets asked Malema exactly ‘what he meant by that statement’,  the ANC youth league leader – who is widely viewed as the future president of South Africa – told the Afriforum members ‘to come and see what will happen to you’… In reaction to this violence-threat AfriForum leaders decided to proceed with the small protest with about 100 people at the nearby Mary Fitzgerald Square instead of all going to Luthuli House. Among the peaceful protestors waving “Stop Malema’ placards were relatives of murdered farmers, reports Beeld newspaper.(picture below)

Stop Malema AfriForumYouth Ernts Roets Daily Maverick pic  Roets warned the tense, small group of peaceful Afrikaners that things could get dangerous: “this isn’t a kindergarten where you play cowboys and crooks, real people get murdered when one makes statements such as those made by Malema’s ‘Kill the Boer chants’. After this meeting a small core of young Afrikaner men went to Luthuli house to hand over the name-lists of murdered Afrikaner farmers together with their petition.

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Hatespeech charge against Julius Malema Dr Pieter Mulder Brooklyn SAPS Capt Molamodi Mar122010Picture left: Afriforum and Freedom Front Plus MP Dr Pieter Mulder – who is also the country’s deputy-Agriculture Minister -- lodged formal hate-speech charges against Malema with Brooklyn, Pretoria SAPS captain Molamodi on March 12 2010 and with the SA Human Rights Commission. On Thursday, Malema threatened to have the Afrikaner protestors killed if they showed up at Luthuli House to present their petition against his hatespeech utterances which call for the mass-murder of all whites (‘boers) in South Africa. And still – Pres Jacob Zuma remains silent…

There also was a terse denial by ANC youth league spokesman Floyd Shivambu that a meeting had ever taken place a day earlier between Malema and four Afriforum members – and that Malema had never agreed to accept any documents from them. “There was no official meeting on Thursday. That man Roets is a liar’. However at the same time he said this Shivambu was also shown an SMS message from him to Roets in which the meeting was confirmed. And three witnesses – all Afriforum Youth members – also confirmed that they were with Roets in Malema’s office and had heard the threats he had uttered towards them. They also entered their names on the security guards’ entry register to Luthuli House. Beeld writes that they are satisfied that the meeting between Malema and the four Afrikaners did take place.http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/45c2581ce77a4fe7ad2cc870358b4fa0/19-03-2010-10-49/Juius_dreig_jeuggroep

 

Hatespeech calls for mass murders of Afrikaners on Julius Malema’s Facebook page:

Facebook Julius Malema hatespeech against Afrikaners

Above is a page-shot of Julius Malema’s website – comments by Thato Mbateti Mbateti date from March 14 2010 – in which threats are clearly also made that “Malema will kill Zuma within 6 weeks’…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCi7DLaxo4

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Afriforum protestors clash with cops

Friday March 19 2010 - The attempt by Afriforum Youth members to deliver to ANC youth leader Julius Malema a name-list of murdered Afrikaner farmers Farmers murdered list kicked into gutter by ANC leader Julius Malema didn't quite go down as planned. The march by the Afrikaners was banned at the last minute; nobody would take delivery of the list – and then it nearly got very ugly as police intervened. The precious list of the murdered Afrikaners was eventually tossed from the ANC headquarters and trampled into the gutter. (picture left).

They wanted to deliver the name-list after Malema had claimed in his infamous ‘Shoot all the boers because they are all rapists’ speeches that the vast majority of people killed on farms were blacks – killed by white farmers.

This infuriated the Afrikaner civil rights movement to such an extent that they have lodged formal charges of hatespeech against Malema – and decided to hand-deliver the name-list of the many hundreds of Afrikaner farmers and their relatives to the youth leader himself.

However the cops formed a solid wall against the Afrikaner supporters who wanted to deliver the document to the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. In the end only five representatives were still at the wall of cops - trying to deliver the document while their group of around 200 supporters were behind them in Mary Fitzgeald square. Which is just as well: because if some of the hotheads there (who threatened to go ahead with a march even though it was considered illegal, and police had a strong presence) have been at Luthuli House, there would have been serious trouble, it is being reported.

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"We are here on behalf of the Boere, and Lucky Dube," said superstar Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmyer, proffering the document to an ANC representative, who refused to accept it. Shortly after, Kallie Kriel, the head of Afriforum proper, tried to enter the building – which is when waiting police stepped in smartly, forming a barrier between him and the door. That is when the finger-waving and shouting started. Photo left: Afriforum Youth leader Ernts Roets talks to the supporters. Photo: The Daily Maverick.

ANC: “We will deal with you like we did with the IFP on 28 March 1994… “ (when 21 people were murdered and 300 injured during a protest march of Zulus in Johannesburg).

While en route to Friday’s confrontation, Afriforum Youth leader Ernts Roets revealed something he said he chose not to tell the waiting crowd, for fear of creating a mob. In a meeting with Malema on Thursday, Roets said, the ANC Youth League leader cited the IFP march on Shell House in Johannesburg as an example of what would happen should Roet's organisation conduct a march with his, Malema's, permission. The ANC youth leader referred to the fact that on that illfated day, 28 March 1994, nineteen people had been murdered. It is  anybody's guess whether that veiled threat or the subsequent treatment of Afriforum's memorandum will create the most anger among white Afrikaners.

After Kriel hurled the document over the heads of the police and small crowd, and right through the open doors of the building, it came saling back onto the pavement. Therethe precious name-list was stepped on and kicked into the gutter in what will be interpreted – whether or not it was so intended – as disrespect for those many thousands who were killed in farm attacks, the names of whom were included in the document.

"What we've seen here was nothing less than intimidation," Roets told an impromptu media conference through an open window as the group got back into their vehicle. "They were not even prepared to listen to the victims in South Africa, people who are being murdered on the farms. "The ANC and the Youth League do not even care about them."

Hofmeyr chose a more poignant turn of phrase. "I didn't expect anything civil…" he told journalists. "I believe we've slipped the moorings of a wonderful ideal. It's a bit sad."

Afriforum says the failure to deliver the memorandum isn't a particular problem, as it was only a courtesy before Malema gets to read about its grievances in court papers. The organisation has already started the process of lodging a complaint that it believes will lead to an Equality Court hearing on hate speech.By Phillip de Wet http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-03-19-afriforum-and-steve-hofmyer-nearly-come-to-blows-with-anc-police

Photo below: The protesters made sure their feelings about the ANC Youth League leader were clearly displayed. Photo: The Daily Maverick. Friday 19 March, 2010

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