Lamola's threat an incitement to violence - AfriForum

AfriForum investigates complaints against Lamola

AfriForum will obtain recordings of the news conference held yesterday by the ANC Youth League's Vice President, Ronald Lamola, during which he threatened farmers to cooperate with land reform programmes or else to face the risk of violent land occupation actions (see M&G Online report).

Parts of the news conference were broadcasted last night during, amongst others, the Afrikaans news bulletin of e-TV on kykNET.  According to AfriForum's legal representative, Willie Spies, Lamola's statements not only amount to hate speech, but also fall within the definitions of the even more serious offences of intimidation and incitement to violence.

Lamola specifically referred to, amongst others, "the Van Tonders and the Van der Merwes on farms" and warned that their safety cannot be guaranteed.

AfriForum intends to lay charges against Lamola at both the Equality Court and the Police in order to ensure that inciting statements of this nature are called to order.  More details will follow soon.

Statement issued by Willie Spies, Legal Representative: AfriForum, June 6 2012

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'If they don’t want to see angry black youths flooding their farms they must come to the party. Whites must volunteer some of the land and mines they own. They can’t only be compelled to do so through legislation,' deputy youth league president Ronald Lamola said on Tuesday, calling for changes to the Constitution to allow the state to appropriate land."

M&G Online, June 6 2012

 

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LOS MY PLAAS EK GAAN JOU ROER Ek lek my lippe af. Hy gaan 'n ******pak kry by VAN DER MERWE on June 06 2012, 12:59 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Racist forum Voetsek Afriforum voetsek, u r dividing our country by Sies!! on June 06 2012, 13:38 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Good! Intimidation Act! He thinks he knows how to get the media's attention - make him pay for it. by Brett on June 06 2012, 14:47 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

You are too sensitive! Chief Buthelezi once said if I warn you that there is a poisinous snake lurking on your path you should not be intepreted to mean that I will place the snake on your path so that you can be beaten. In the same vein Lamola is warning you about what is . .more going to happen if the rightful owners of the land are constantly denied meaningful participation in the economic mainstream. Stop being so sensitive and start to think rationally for this is our land as well as it is yours. I cannot, for the life of me, believe that you want to maintain the status quo when the landless black people are denied the riches of the country, how long must they be patient. You are quick to run to courts instead of trying to heal this festering wound that will destroy us all if not treated. . .less by Mzimb'khalimali on June 07 2012, 08:29 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Get real Mzimbkhalimali - Once again, please bear in mind that the farms have been bought and sold many times. The present tenants are there legally. Even so, imagine a scenario where people could just invade and live in someone else's farm. The day after they . .more "move in", what is to stop another crowd of people shoving them aside and taking over the farm? And so on and on and on. What would happen eventually to farming and food production with a different set of people fighting over the farm and the land every single day? . .less by jen on June 07 2012, 08:44 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Fools make the loudest noise - Fortunately the world is run by thinking people Food will be the new "oil" of the future. The blacks are not natural farmers and in general terms they are not ready to farm seriously. It will take time to transfer such skills and entrepreneurial energy to these people and one . .more cannot take the risk of them stuffing up good producing land. Their track record of destroying excellent farms that have so far been handed over to them is alarming. I understand that it has been 100% unsuccessful. Apart from all this there is huge potential for farming throughout the country on unused land. For example just give the land in the transkei to a white farmer and see what he will do with it within a decade. It is time for the aspirant black farmers to get off the fat arses and get to work. . .less by Socrate on June 07 2012, 10:18 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

@ Socrate What a brilliant idea, someone start a competition to see who is able to turn land into a profitable enterprise, most efficiently. Should be fun. As I recall there was a farmer in Zim who owned a few farms which were systematically taken by . .more Mugabe. Eventually he was left with one barren farm, which he developed into a game reserve, building a huge dam on the property and began making a lot of money. Mrs Mugabe decided she wanted this reserve, so what did he do, he simply blew up the dam and lodge. Walla niks oor. . .less by Open Minded on June 07 2012, 11:09 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

@Mzimb 'the landless black people are denied the riches of the country' - the biggest lie ever told! Your stupidity knows no bounds. Your more than 40 milllion own at least 80% of the land - the state''s 38%, your millions of shacklands next to roads and towns, . .more the former homelands, the Eastern Cape that you have destroyed, the Northern Cape - all this you have got free! You took it all by overpopulating the earth. That is all you do. You refuse to pay electricity - we have to provide it for you. You refuse to pay for water - we have to provide it for you. You never designed a dam or bridge or road or harbour or airport in your lives. You mine in old mines illegally and when you are dying in the mine, you want us to send people to save you! As a friend of mine always says: You cannot cure stupid. . .less by John Logan on June 07 2012, 12:04 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Wake 2 reality Can someone please tell these descendants of European peasants that we did not start seeing food when the Dromedaris anchored? Just disappear and see if we will starve. U lack capacity to learn Most of you emigrated in 1994, thinking that we need you . .more like oxygen. You came back grinning sheepishly. And suddenly there is a gene for farming linked to pigmentation? That is a retarded opinion. We are organizing a march to Afriforum offices with Zile. Please join us as u have been pontificating and lecturing about what we should and should not march about. Afriforum is standing in the way of development. Those who got felled in Zim had been displaying these same dumb attitudes that we see in this forum. Lamola’s statement is not a threat. It is a promise. If these people will not cooporate there will be hell to pay. . .less by Proudly Black on June 08 2012, 08:20 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

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