{"id":368047,"date":"2018-07-04T23:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/man-who-called-for-the-genocide-of-white-south-africans-goes-unpunished\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T23:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:53:05","slug":"man-who-called-for-the-genocide-of-white-south-africans-goes-unpunished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/man-who-called-for-the-genocide-of-white-south-africans-goes-unpunished\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Called for the Genocide of White South Africans Goes Unpunished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Velaphi Khumalo called for white South Africans to be subjected to what &#8216;Hitler did to the Jews&#8217;. He has been told to issue a public apology.<\/p>\n<p>The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) argued that a public apology from Velaphi Khumalo will suffice as punishment for his racial utterances. Khumalo appeared before the Equality Court for a Facebook comment in which he called for the massacre of white South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The SAHRC settled with Khumalo ordering the accused to apologise publicly, as that would deter other South Africans from making racial utterances. Khumalo was also ordered to pay R30 000 to charity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blacks must do to whites what \u201cHitler did to the Jews\u201d \u2013 Khumalo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an earlier interview with Khumalo\u2019s legal counsel, Stuart Wilson pleaded with the court, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that Mr Khumalo should not have said what he said. Not only did he apologise profusely\u201a he faced disciplinary action by his employer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Khumalo was responding to another racist Facebook rant by Penny Sparrow, in which the latter compared Durban beachgoers to monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Times Live, this reactionary offence was the basis of Khumalo\u2019s defence argument, with Wilson saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMr Khumalo was\u201a at the time he made his remarks\u201a engaged in a fierce debate about the meaning of another Facebook post that likened black people to \u2018monkeys\u2019 who had been \u2018released\u2019 onto \u2018public beaches\u2019 for New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u2018Velaphi Khumalo\u2019s statement meaningless&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/man-who-called-for-the-genocide-of-white-south-africans-goes-unpunished\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velaphi Khumalo called for white South Africans to be subjected to what &#8216;Hitler did to the Jews&#8217;. He has been told to issue a public apology. The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) argued that a public apology from Velaphi Khumalo will suffice as punishment for his racial utterances. Khumalo appeared before the Equality Court for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}