Agb Speaker, die VF Plus neem met skok kennis van mnr Franz Jooste se rassistiese uitlatings in die media oor sy kommandokorpsopleidingskampe. Mnr Jooste se aanhitsing van rassehaat en -spanning is onaanvaarbaar en word sterk veroordeel. Die feit dat hierdie kampe jong seuns indoktrineer om swartmense te haat, is geen oplossing vir die huidige probleme van Suid-Afrika nie, en pleeg 'n onreg teenoor sulke jongmense, omdat hulle wanaangepas sal wees in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing.
Die VF Plus veroordeel deurlopend rassisme, van wie dit ook al mag kom. Dit is so dat misdaad in Suid-Afrika gemeenskappe noop om veiligheidsopleiding te kry om hulleself te beskerm, maar wanneer dit misbruik word om jongmense te indoktrineer om rassisties te wees, is dit onaanvaarbaar. Sulke optrede skaad en benadeel ook ander veiligheidsopleidingsgroepe wat 'n diens aan die gemeenskap wil lewer.
Die VF Plus-jeug se tema vir 2012 is juis "Ons is 'n vry generasie". 'n Kind wat in 1994 gebore is, word hierdie jaar 18 en is stemgeregtig. Dit is 'n generasie vry van die verlede en dit is belangrik om nie 'n nuwe generasie van gegriefdes te skep nie. Die ANC-regering skep nuwe gegriefdes met sy onbillike regstellende aksie en sy beleid ten opsigte van universiteitstoelating.
Dit is egter belangrik dat mense soos mnr Franz Jooste nie met sy kru rassisme die saak van die Afrikaner as minderheidsgroep skade berokken nie. Alle Afrikaners is nie so nie, maar die optrede van sulke organisasies word gebruik om alle Afrikaners as rassiste te stereotipeer, en is 'n onreg teenoor Afrikaners. Dankie. (Translation of Afrikaans speech follows.)
[Mr P J GROENEWALD (FF Plus): Hon Speaker, the FF Plus is shocked to take notice in the media of the racist remarks by Mr Franz Jooste concerning his "Kommandokorps" training camps. It is unacceptable for Mr Jooste to provoke racial hatred and the pressure it creates, and we condemn it in the strongest terms. The fact that at these camps young boys are indoctrinated to hate black people is no solution for the current problems of South Africa and is nothing short of an injustice to said young people, as they will be maladjusted in South African society.
The FF Plus continuously condemns racism, regardless of who is guilty of that. It is a fact that due to crime in South Africa, communities are compelled to get security training in order to defend themselves, but when it is abused to indoctrinate young people to be racist, it is unacceptable. Such conduct also harms and is an injustice to other security training groups who want to deliver a service to the community.
The theme of the FF Plus youth for 2012 is: "We are a free generation". A child who was born in 1994 turns 18 this year and is eligible to vote. It is a generation free of the past and it is important not to create a new generation of resentful people. The ANC government is creating resentful people with its unfair affirmative action and university admittance policies.
It is, however, important that people such as Franz Jooste, with his crude racism, should not damage the cause of the Afrikaner as minority group. All Afrikaners are not like that, but the conduct of such organisations is used to stereotype all Afrikaners as racists, and that is unfair towards Afrikaners. Thank you.]