Over the past month and a half, the DA has referred to several social media posts, which seemingly glorify farm murders and attacks, to the commission to investigate them for hate speech.
Cape Town – DA state security spokesperson Dianne Kohler Barnard MP has taken exception to the fact that the South African Human Rights Commission will no longer investigate hate speech against farmers posted on social media.
The commission said, for one, that it doesn’t have the capacity to trace the individuals in question. However, the DA intends to ’’explore its options to challenge the commission’s weak excuse to not investigate social media posts that glorify farm murders and attacks’’. ’’It would seem, however, that to the SAHRC, racially fuelled posts encouraging South Africans to murder members of a family already prostrate with grief at the murder of their loved one does not qualify as an infringement on human dignity,“ she said.
’’In another weak justification of its refusal to investigate these hateful posts, the commission said that in the instances the DA reported, the comments were ’made broadly in reference to millions of people on the basis of their race’. ’’The commission then admits that it has a wide discretion whether to accept a complaint or represent an individual in the Equality Court. It has chosen not to represent the families of the murder victims who are farmers and farmworkers…
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