UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL FORUM ON MINORITY ISSUES Minorities in situations of humanitarian crises Geneva Switzerland 24 & 25 November 2016 Presented by: Advocate Anton Alberts – Freedom Front Plus South Africa We hereby submit a brief country-specific analysis of the Afrikaner and other minorities in South Africa. We focus specifically on the early warning stage of preventing a crisis. The Afrikaner and various other minorities, including the KhoiSan First Nation communities are experiencing increasing pressure from the government and related political parties. This pressure has taken on various form in law and in practice and is known as “Transformation”. Transformation’s meaning is informed by the term “representivity” and in essence means that all civil and governmental institutions must represent the demographic status of the country. This means that minorities will always be relegated to an inferior status as no organisation, community, business, school, university, and sports team will receive government support unless it reflects the demographic majoritarian status. This means that minorities may not have complete or majority representation of their own within these mentioned socio-spheres. This is a carefully crafted and insidious logic disguised as a constitutional imperative in terms of Section 9 of the Constitution that guarantees equality. The basic point of departure is that everyone is equal before the law and entitled to equal protection and benefit of the law. However, intervention can take legally place in order to ensure equity for those persons that were disadvantaged by unfair discrimination and it is upon this rule that the ANC-government has crafted its “Transformation” and “representivity”-logic where all of society must represent the demographic majority representation as their social-engineered solution. This “Transformation”-logic has given rise to a whole spate of racial legislation – more so than the apartheid-regime - in the fields of employment and labour, business, government procurement, and not least sport itself. This has led to new imbalances for minorities in the name of equity as these measures have over-reached its original constitutional purpose. Our request is that this Forum on Minority Issues takes serious note of the attempts by the present South African government to absolutely exclude Afrikaners and minorities in South Africa from freely participating in the country since 1994. Furthermore - to assist in preventing and addressing the structural and systemic violence and atrocities targeted against strategic minorities that mainly contributes to job creation, economic growth and prosperity to the entire South African nation. The following are examples of exclusion: