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Gauteng govt sports promoter faces anti-white hate speech charge

04 November 2016

Cape Town - The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is taking government sports promoter Velaphi Khumalo to the Equality Court on a hate speech charge.

He said in a Facebook post in January that whites should suffer the same fate as Jews under the Nazi regime.

 

He should apologise unconditionally in public and be interdicted from communicating hate speech in future, SAHRC spokesperson Gushwell Brooks said on Friday.

The civil application to be heard in the Equality Court would be in terms of Section 10 of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act.

Khumalo posted his comments during public outrage over former estate agent Penny Sparrow's remarks equating black people to monkeys.

She has since been found guilty of hate speech and has apologised. On Thursday, she tried unsuccessfully to appeal the finding at the Scottburgh Equality Court.

News24

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