The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the Defence Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to request that she investigates allegations of hate speech against a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) official.
This is after a General MV Mohlala purportedly made comments on social media over the weekend that appeared to incite violence against white South Africans.
“All these white people think we are stupid when they say that they were opposed to apartheid. We will not forget what they have done. Now it is the white people’s turn,” wrote Mohlala.
Mohlala was supposedly referring to a photo of an 80-year-old man, Braam van Wyk, who was badly beaten.
The General, according to the Rapport newspaper added that they “should actually have poked out his eyes and tongue so that the last people he would ever see, were the killers and he could go to his grave with the nightmare (sic).”
The DA’s MP who speaks on issues related to Defence and Military Veterans, Kobus Marais, says that Mapisa-Nqakula should initiate the appropriate disciplinary process against Major Mohlala.
“Major Mohlala has the privilege of serving in our armed forces. His mandate is to protect our nation, not to add to the high levels of crime or promoting violence and racial hatred,” said Marais.
The party says that it will also approach the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to further investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, minority rights group Front Nasionaal SA has called Mohlala’s statements “brutally racist and a prime example of the most offensive hate speech.”
