Complaint at Human Rights Council over Africa Check claim that 'white women are more likely to be murdered by their lovers than by black men in SA'.
April 9 2014: The Freedom Front Plus party and two Afrikaans artists and human rights activists, Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr, have submitted an official complaint at the Human Rights Commission in SA
against two researchers at a rather murky crime-research group called 'Africa Check' , Ms Nechama Brodie and Lisa Vetten.
Freedom Front Plus spokeswoman for its Women's committee, said the complaint is based on an article in 'Rapport' weekly Afrikaans newspaper on
29 Junie 2013 in which Nechama Brodie was quoted as saying on behalf of Africa Check beweer that
'A white woman has a better chance of being murdered by her lover or friend than she would be an unknown black man (in South Africa'.
The complaint is further based in a statement by Lisa Vetten of the same group in which she backs up her collegue's statement in an article on
17 July 2013 in which she says that the comment that 'white women are murdered more by unknown black men (in South Africa) are 'racist scare-stories'.
She claims that 'the majority of women murdered in South Africa are killed by their husbands, boyfriends or lovers.'
Ms De Lange said that Afrikaners still remember ANC minister Luxu Xingwana's claim that 'young Afrikaner-men are raised in a Calvinist belief in which it is believed that a woman, a child
and everything else are 'owned' and they (the men) can therefore take those lives because they 'own' it.
She said that while Minister Xingwana has apologized to Afrikaners for the comment, but they also insist that Brodie and Vetten must apologize for their erroneous statements.
"We want to carry out the message that we will no longer be willing to be the punch-bags for extremists,' she commented
http://www.dievoorblad.co.za/index.php/afr/joomla-pages-iii/category-list/67-hoofberigte/1451-vf-plus-en-kunstenaars-dien-klagte-in-by-mrk
Xingwana has 'apologised' for her racist statement, writes the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21612968
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