Geagte Speaker, kennis word geneem van die ooreenkoms oor haatspraak, tussen die ANC, TLU SA en AfriForum, waarin die ANC onderneem om hul ondersteuners en leierskap aan te raai en aan te moedig om met selfbeheersing op te tree oor liedjies soos Skiet die boer, wat kwetsend vir ander gemeenskappe kan wees.
Die VF Plus sal die ANC in die Parlement tot verantwoording roep ten opsigte van hierdie ooreenkoms. Dit is 'n ope vraag of die ANC wel die integriteit het om by sulke ooreenkomste te hou. Die ANC moet s hoe hy sy ondersteuners en leierskap in die praktyk gaan aanraai en aanmoedig om met selfbeheersing oor kwetsende liedjies en uitsprake op te tree.
Die ANC het tans 'n rekord dat hy nie ooreenkomste nakom nie. Die VF Plus het reeds in 2007 'n ooreenkoms aangegaan met die ANC oor kwetsende en haatspraak plakkate wat hulle in Dendron rondgeswaai het. Hulle het toe selfs onderneem dat hulle dissiplinr teen hul lede sal optree, maar dit is nodeloos om te s dat hulle dit nie gedoen het nie, en Julius Malema se uitsprake is 'n sprekende voorbeeld. [Tussenwerpsels.]
Aan die een kant wil die ANC nasionale samehorigheid h, maar aan die ander kant laat hy sy lede toe om hierdie kwetsende uitsprake te maak. Die VF Plus sou eerder 'n hofbeslissing oor haatspraak in hierdie saak verwelkom het, want dit sou duidelikheid gebring het en afdwingbaar op alle individue en organisasies gewees het. Dankie. (Translation of Afrikaans member's statement follows.)
[Mr P J GROENEWALD (FF Plus): Hon Speaker, cognisance is taken of the agreement between the ANC, TAU SA and AfriForum on hate speech, in which the ANC agrees to advise and encourage their supporters and leadership to act with restraint regarding songs such as Skiet die Boer, which may be hurtful to other communities.
The FF Plus will call the ANC to account regarding this agreement. It is an open question whether the ANC does have the integrity to keep to such agreements. The ANC must tell us how they are going to advise and encourage their supporters and leadership in practice that they should act with restraint regarding hurtful songs and statements.
At present the ANC has a record of not honouring agreements. Back in 2007 the FF Plus had already entered into an agreement with the ANC on hurtful and hateful placards which they had been waving about in Dendron. They then even took it upon themselves to take disciplinary steps against their members, but needless to say they did not do this, and the statements by Julius Malema are a telling example. [Interjections.]
On the one hand the ANC wants national cohesion, but on the other they allow their members to make these hurtful statements. The FF Plus would rather have welcomed a court decision on hate speech in this case, because that would have brought clarity and would have been enforceable upon all individuals and organisations. Thank you.]