ActionSA takes action against Gayton McKenzie! ActionSA announced that it has reported the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, to the South African Human Rights Commission.
The reason cited is his alleged racist remarks.
In a statement they released on Saturday, 9 August, they said that this was because he repeatedly used hateful slurs from the Apartheid era, along with other offensive references that served to degrade and dehumanise black South Africans.
ActionSA takes action
“While we hold reservations about the effectiveness of the SAHRC, it remains the constitutionally empowered institution mandated to address such matters. Accordingly, we will follow the prescribed process, but are fully prepared to independently institute proceedings at the Equality Court in terms of Section 20 of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act,” they said.
The party said that earlier this week, they joined South Africans in condemning vile and repugnant remarks directed toward the Coloured community.
“Today, we do the same in confronting racism in all its forms by holding a sitting Cabinet Minister accountable for comments that no reasonable person can defend as anything other than racist and demeaning.”
They said racism and the dehumanising of any person, regardless of their race, have no place in Mzansi.
“Which is why we have also lodged a complaint against Minister Dean Macpherson for his deeply offensive and racially charged attacks on ActionSA supporters, referring to them as “amaphara” and “hobos,” they said.
The party said that non-racialism is a founding and defining value of ActionSA.
“Anchoring our belief that we must fight to protect the dignity of every South African and ensure that all, especially those serving as Cabinet Ministers, uphold the very essence of our constitutional dispensation, for which many sacrificed their lives.”
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