The FW de Klerk Foundation has today submitted a complaint to the SA Human Rights Commission regarding 45 social media postings that incite extreme violence against white South Africans.

The Foundation is particularly concerned about recent statements in the media and the social media that constitute hurtful racist remarks. In this regard it issued a statement on 5 January in which it strongly condemned the recent racist remarks made by Penny Sparrow regarding black South Africans who made use of public beaches on New Year’s Day.

The FW de Klerk Foundation condemns in the strongest possible terms the deeply insulting and racist remarks made by Ms Penny Sparrow regarding black South Africans who enjoyed KZN’s beaches on News Year’s Day.  

Our Constitution calls on us to heal the divisions of the past and to establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental rights. Non-racialism is one of the foundational values on which our new society has been created. Human dignity is another.

President Zuma’s decision to dismiss Minister Nhlanhla Nene as Minister of Finance may signal a catastrophic turning point for South Africa’s already ailing economy. The Ministry of Finance and the Treasury have thus far been the main – and perhaps the last – bulwarks against unrestrained and profligate state expenditure. Minister Nene has maintained probity in the management of state finances and tried, with courage and distinction, to hold the line against irresponsible state expenditure.

It is widely believed that his opposition to the President’s plans to spend more than one trillion rand on Russian nuclear reactors and the firm line that he took in countermanding the highly suspect plans of the SAA Board Chairperson, Dudu Myeni, to reopen complex contracts for new aircraft, have led to his dismissal. Ms Myeni, a close confidante of President Zuma, is also the Chairperson of the Jacob G Zuma Foundation.