AfriForum considers legal steps against Xingwana after her remarks about Afrikaners

The civil rights organisation AfriForum is considering bringing a complaint of discrimination before the Equality Court against the Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, after she remarked on an Australian news programme that young Afrikaners and their Calvinistic faith should be blamed for violence against women and children in South Africa.

Xingwana made the remarks yesterday on the Australian news channel ABC News:

"Young Afrikaner men are brought up in the Calvinist religion believing that they own a woman, they own a child, they own everything and therefore they can take that life because they own it...."

"Xingwana's remarks boil down to a blatant contravention of various sections of the Promotion of Equality and the Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act," said Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum. She has discriminated on the basis of race, faith and gender. On top of that, she clearly lacks the necessary expertise to talk knowledgably on the topic."

AfriForum has already submitted the matter to its legal team.

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Statement issued by Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO, AfriForum, Februar 26 2013

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