No legislative or institutional mechanisms exist whereby minorities can govern over
their own cultural assets and whereby their minority rights can be protected and
developed in contravention of the prerequisites to prevent a humanitarian crisis1;
Afrikaners are by law and other minorities by practice excluded from the labour and
business markets by Transformation policies in favour of ethnically Black people. The
imbalance is perpetuated by the fact that the government is continuing to implement
affirmative action in the public service even though the demographic representation
targets have been met in contravention of the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (see our report submitted in
December 2014)2;
The government forcing Afrikaans language medium primary and secondary schools
to accept non-Afrikaans speaking learners which eventually leads to the transformation
of the schools into English language medium schools;
an unacceptable total of 1651 farm murders against minorities having been committed
from 1990 to 2013;
The government’s ideological political propaganda that spreads the misleading myth
that white farmers stole the land from black people and that the KhoiSan do not
deserve the First Nation title as the first land occupiers. There is sufficient proof that
land was either negotiated, bartered or bought after stringent negotiations stretching
from 1652 to 1913 and that Black tribes were also responsible in the displacement of
the KhoiSan;
The governing ANC’s racist stance to prosecute white hate speech perpetrators, but
not senior politicians that actively propagate genocide against white minorities.
(Reference Julius Malema, leader of the EFF political party, stating “We are not calling
for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now…”).3
Therefore, we, the FREEDOM FRONT PLUS of South Africa, together with other
registered South African participants Request this Forum on Minority Issues to share and adopt our concerns about this
systematic exclusion and targeting of Afrikaners and other minorities – which, in the Statute
of Rome, is referred to as an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination
by one racial group over any other racial group or groups; and
Recommend that the UN General Secretary initiates a full investigation in order to pressurize
the SA government to put an end to these racially discriminating measures and to promote
minority rights activelty.
1
The Secretary-General of the UN warned in his report to the Millennium Assembly of the UN in 2000 that in
countries at war the solution lies, inter alia, in the institution of political arrangements where all groups were
represented. We submit this is also a pre-requisite for averting conflict and is supported by the Special
Rapporteur on Minority Issues in her report referenced as A/HRC/16/45 (dated 16 December 2010).
2
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies result in social assistance and investment based on race where
score points are achieved for any social investment in projects where blacks are benefited, but none where
whites are, thus excluding poor Afrikaners, including their babies and children (inclusive of abandoned Afrikaner
babies due to poverty and otherwise), from any assistance and investment.
3
http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1338292/wont-slaughter-whites-now-malema/