The Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it’s going to report Patriotic Alliance (PA) deputy president Kenny Kunene to the South African Human Rights Fee (SAHRC) for his social media publish on unlawful miners in South Africa.
On Sunday, Kunene took to X (previously Twitter) to share a picture of what seems to be two goats which were slaughtered, skinned, and held on hooks and urged that that is the destiny that awaits unlawful miners in South Africa ought to his occasion come into energy.
EFF TO REPORT KENNY KUNENE TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Kunene’s publish comes simply days after scores of unlawful miners who have been initially believed to be trapped at a shaft on the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein resurfaced.
A complete of 78 our bodies of alleged zama zamas have been retrieved this week throughout a government-led operation.
So far, near 2000 unlawful miners have been retrieved underground, and most are undocumented unlawful immigrants from Mozambique, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe.
This isn’t the primary time Kunene has been on the highlight for his controversial remarks. Throughout a panel dialogue earlier this week on Newzroom, Afrika Kunene stated he has no sympathy for unlawful miners as they’re committing treason by stealing the wealth of South Africa.
“I’ve completely no sympathy. They need to die like rats underground there, all of them. They need to burn in hell,” he stated.
The EFF stated Kunene’s feedback signify the bottom degree of opportunism and are the hallmarks of “sadistic and pathological dedication to dehumanisation and an infatuation with genocide”.
The Crimson Berets stated they’re appalled {that a} authorities official, who’s tasked with a serious duty within the government of the Metropolis of Johannesburg, has no regard for the rule of regulation and pure justice, and makes use of his platform to spew unadulterated hate.
“It’s much more regarding that he expresses that the political occasion he leads, which already has illustration in nationwide authorities, will slaughter and pores and skin human beings, exhibiting no regard for the Structure of South Africa, inside which the precise to life is enshrined.
“The EFF will subsequently report Kenny Kunene to the South African Human Rights Fee (SAHRC) for his reckless feedback, as they’re a transparent indication that he intends to contest electoral energy so as to commit human rights violations and focused killings and mutilations of human beings. Additional to this, the EFF will method the Metropolis of Johannesburg’s Ethics Committee to impose sanctions on Kenny Kunene who serves as a Councillor within the Metropolis and sits on the Govt,” EFF spokesperson Leigh-Ann Mathys stated.
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