South Africa, as a young democracy still recovering from scars of deep oppression and segregation, has done some incredible things and made some amazing transformations. Unfortunately, there are patches where progress is a bit slower than in others…

Following the appointment of a new Vice Chancellor at North West University, there has been some turbulence and much investigation into a number of racial and ‘hate speech’ slurs.

The latest of these is a pamphlet which has been circulated around the campus (it is not yet known where the pamphlet originated).

[AfriForum Youth’s] national chair Henk Maree yesterday said it came across a pamphlet on the university’s Potchefstroom campus.

The pamphlet read: “Attention comrades. Time to take back the NWU. Kill the boer, Kill the racist, Kill Afrikaans. Uhuru anakuja [Freedom is coming]”.

“This pamphlet contains clear hate speech against Afrikaners and Afrikaans speaking students, and it incites people to commit racial murders,” said Maree.

He said the organisation has sent a letter to the university and the SA Human Right Commission (SAHRC) to request an urgent probe to confirm who the individual and organisation that distributed the pamphlets.

SAHRC spokesperson Isaac Mangena said he was not aware of the letter.

University campuses are no doubt a brewing pot where future leaders are shaped and revolutions are festered, but this sentiment is certainly not transformative or nation building and should not be tolerated.

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