Pretoria – Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s efforts to transform universities on racial lines were part of the “total onslaught” against Afrikaans, the AfriForum Youth said on Monday.
“Extremist groups” like the EFF, student movements like Open Stellenbosch and Rhodes Must Fall and the failure to act against unruly students had led to the crisis at universities, AfriForum Youth national chairperson Henk Maree told reporters in Pretoria.
He was releasing the organisation’s National Prevention Plan for seven universities where Afrikaans was one of the mediums of instruction.
Lectures had been disrupted, students assaulted and property vandalised during protests against the dual English/Afrikaans language policy some students felt was putting non-Afrikaans speakers at a disadvantage.
Maree said EFF members, who were not students, were being let on to campuses to take part in the violence. At Elsenburg Agricultural College in the Western Cape students sang “kill the boer” last week, AfriForum’s Ian Cameron said.
Students would get self-defence training at those campuses where threats existed, Maree said. Private security companies and neighbourhood watch groups had been asked to help. However, because they were not allowed on campuses, they had to wait outside until they were needed.
While they would act with the “necessary resolve” to protect their members’ rights, everything would be done according to the law.
AfriForum would write to Nzimande and Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana to ask why they had not “exposed” attempts to scrap Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at tertiary institutions.
There would be protests and possibly a court bid to stop the EFF from resorting to violence on campuses and from making land grabs.
Maree said they rejected the documentaryLuister (Listen)as a malicious attempt to promote a racist agenda at Stellenbosch University.
“The video is a conspiracy theory accusing people of racism, where no grounds for such an accusation exist,” he said.
The documentary was produced by four white male University of Cape Town students. In it several black Stellenbosch University students, and one white woman lecturer, recount their experiences of racism at the institution.
AfriForum Youth said the students in Luister lied and no attempt was made to get other perspectives.
Maree responds to Luister in his own YouTube video called Luister Weer (Listen Again).
http://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/there-is-a-total-onslaught-against-afrikaans-afriforum/
●‘Luister Weer’ by AfriForum in reply to ‘Luister’ by Open Stellenbosch
AfriForum Youth created a video in reply to claims of racism and slow transformation at Stellenbosch University in the “Luister” video‚ produced by the Open Stellenbosch student group:
http://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/luister-weer-by-afriforum-in-reply-to-luister-by-open-stellenbosch/
●Also read:
Private Afrikaans university under fire over bursaries http://stopwhitegenocideinsa.blogspot.co.za/2015/07/private-afrikaans-university-under-fire.html?
● #Afrikaans language under ATTACK: Grade 6 mathematics textbook now only available In English
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=399709633570384
● De Klerk says Afrikaans identity under pressure
http://mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.co.za/2015/06/de-klerk-says-afrikaans-identity-under.html?
● English, Pedi & Zulu accepted as official languages & AFRIKAANS will be phased out as language
http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2015/04/welkom-pedi-voertsek-afrikaans/
● Nzimande threatens private Afrikaans university with closure
http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/Nzimande-threatens-Afrikaans-university-with-closure-20141130
● Racist SABC rejects Afrikaans, 80% must be English ?
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-11-19-sabc-skuif-afrikaans-uit
Cultural genocide is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political, military, religious, ideological, ethnical, or racial reasons.
Relevance to International Law
As early as 1933, Raphael Lemkin proposed a cultural component to genocide, which he called "vandalism".[1] However, the drafters of the 1948 Genocide Convention dropped that concept from their consideration.[2] The legal definition of genocide was confined to acts of physical or biological destruction with intent to destroy a racial, religious, ethnic or national group as such.[3]
Article 7 of the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (26 August 1994)[4] uses the phrase "cultural genocide" but does not define what it means. The complete article reads as follows:
Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected to ethnocide and cultural genocide, including prevention of and redress for:
(a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
(c) Any form of population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
(d) Any form of assimilation or integration by other cultures or ways of life imposed on them by legislative, administrative or other measures;
(e) Any form of propaganda directed against them.
In South Africa, the Afrikaner community has expressed dismay towards the ANC government's stance onAfrikaner cultures. A particular thorny issue is education, the government favours a dual-medium language system, english-Afrikaans institutions rather than single-medium Afrikaans institutions. The argument of manyAfrikaners is that English will eventually dominate andAfrikaans will lose relevance in these respective establishments. Another controversial issue is the renaming of places, streets and monuments in South Africa. In many cases, boer general names are replaced by those of ANC freedom fighters. Similarly the english-speaking white community is affected. Jan Smutsinternational airport reverted to becoming Or Thambo international airport. There are also plans to renameGrahamstown (regarded by many as the heartland of anglo-African culture in South Africa) with an indigenous African name.
http://jughaculturalgenocide.blogspot.com/2010/12/about-cultural-genocide-what-is-it.html?
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