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ANC-led government should sink their heads in shame on Human Rights Day – AfriForum
The civil rights organisation AfriForum argues that the ANC-led government should today sink their heads in shame about the extent of human rights violations that are currently taking place in the country.
According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the fact that an average of about 70 people are murdered per day in South Africa is a serious indictment of the government’s inability to protect citizens’ right to life. “To make matters worse, the government contributes to the normalisation of violence by not condemning calls for violence such as ‘kill the Boer’,” Kriel adds.
According to Kriel, the high levels of poverty and an unemployment rate of more than 40% are also indicative of the government’s inability to create favourable conditions in which the private sector can create jobs and grow the economy. “The government is creating an unfavourable climate for investors by disregarding property rights, knowing full well that a disrespect for property rights will lead to increased unemployment and poverty,” says Kriel.
Kriel also points out that 80% of South African schools are dysfunctional – something that is one of the most serious human rights violations committed against children in the country. “Children are deprived of quality education, among other things, by the lack of mother-tongue education for the majority of scholars. Instead of making mother-tongue education available to all scholars, the government chose to violate Afrikaans children’s right to mother-tongue education through the BELA Act and thereby threaten the survival of Afrikaans cultural communities,” Kriel concludes.
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