A Cape Town man has opened a criminal case against a Facebook user who called for blacks to do to white South Africans what “Hitler did to the Jews”.<\/p>\n
For 21-year-old Daniel Amos, Velaphi Khumalo\u2019s post was disturbing and needed to be addressed outside the realm of social media.<\/p>\n
Amos opened a case of crimen injuria against Khumalo, after he said on Facebook that he hated all whites. He called for them to be “cleansed” out of the country.<\/p>\n
“I want to cleans this country of all white people. We must act as Hitler did to the Jews. I don’t believe any more that the is a large number of not so racist whit people. I’m starting to be sceptical even of those within our Movement the ANC. I will from today unfriend all white people I have as friends from today u must be put under the same blanket as any other racist white because secretly u all are a bunch of racist fuck heads. as we have already seen [all sic],” he wrote.<\/p>\n
Khumalo said he was unapologetic about his post. He did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The post was in response to a Facebook post by former KwaZulu-Natal estate agent Penny Sparrow, who compared black New Year\u2019s revellers on the country\u2019s beaches to monkeys.<\/p>\n
Amos said he was offended by Khumalo\u2019s post, which was circulated on Facebook on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“I find it extremely disturbing that 21 years after the end of apartheid, we still see racism from both white and black people.”<\/p>\n
At a time when the country\u2019s citizens should band together, people were spreading racial slurs and making generalisations about an entire race, based on one person\u2019s comments, he said.<\/p>\n
Amos said he would approach the South African Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n
Western Cape police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk confirmed the case and said they were investigating.<\/p>\n
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Source: News24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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