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A youth activist based in Johannesburg has apparently laid a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (HRC) regarding Helen Zille’s tweet of almost two weeks ago, where she referred to scholars in the Eastern Cape that come to the Western Cape for schooling as “refugees”.
Zille’s original tweet of 20 March read:
While ECape education collapsed, WC built 30 schools – 22 new, 8 replacement mainly 4 ECape edu refugees. 26 MORE new schools coming. [sic]
Lukhona Mnguni, the “youth activist”, has asked the SAHRC to “advise” Zille to retract and apologise for her comment on the social networking site Twitter, according to a report in yesterday’s The Times.
Mnguni said the DA leader owed the country an apology for her comments, which undermined constitutional democracy.
Mnguni reportedly wrote in his complaint that Zille’s words,
pose a threat of stigmatising people of the Eastern Cape as foreigners in the Western Cape. Even if the statement was made in jest, it fundamentally sets an unwanted national discourse, which undermines the efforts to undo and obliterate legacies of apartheid.
He said Zille had violated section 21 of the Bill of Rights.
Zille has not personally responded to the claim, but her Chief of Staff Geordin Hill-Lewis put the alleged complaint firmly in perspective, saying,
The only human rights scandal is that hundreds of thousands of young South Africans in the Eastern Cape, and in other ANC-run provinces, are being denied their right to a quality basic education. That is the scandal…
[Source: News 24]
