NEWSLASH: Karima Brown threatened with rape via WhatsApp by EFF supporters By Ferial Haffajee ferialhaffajee
Karima Brown mistakenly put notes to the producer of her radio and television programmes onto the EFF media WhatsApp group suggesting ways to explore a meeting between Malema and elders on the East Rand of Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.“
The followers immediately began threatening Brown on her phone via both voice and chat messages. “You need a serious Numerous threats of violence were made against Brown by EFF members who took her number off Malema’s Twitter feed. Said one message: “Our forfathers where robbed of this Land by the pink and they think we are the Mandela generation where are tolarent .Brown my dear, if only we’d be asked or told to go toe to toe with the pink, id be the first in line,My wish is to see the pink skin pealed off their skin, i wish for smoke ash of their pink bodies lying on the ground.
SANEF is seeking to interdict the EFF from threatening journalists in the Equality Court after a series of attacks on journalists in November 2018.The South African National Editors’ Forum condemns the systemic, abusive and cruel social media attack levelled against Talk Show Host and veteran journalist Karima Brown over the last 24 hours by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and his supporters,” said SANEF in a statement on Wednesday.
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