We, the Stellenbosch branch of Students for Law and Social Justice, express our dismay at  the Red October campaign and the views which it advances in the name of “The White South African Ethnic Minority”.

The Red October Campaign protests against the “inhuman slaughter and oppression of white people in South Africa” and  claims that white South Africans are victims of “racist Black Economic Empowerment and Affirmative Action policies”, a “pathetic educational system” and “dangerous neighbourhoods”.

These statements ignore the realities of post-Apartheid South Africa, in which black South Africans continue to carry the overwhelming burden of socio-economic disadvantage and violent crime. Statistics in an AfricaCheck report released earlier this year show that only 1.8% of murder victims in South Africa are white, despite whites making up 9% of the population. Thus, underlying the campaign, is the racist assumption of Apartheid thinking that the life of a white person has more value than the life of a black person.

We, as a body of students who are still predominantly white and Afrikaans, reject the Red October Campaign. It ignores the Rule of Law and the provision in the Constitution for affirmative action to redress past disadvantage. It is repugnant both to black South Africans and to white South Africans who are committed to the values and objectives of the Constitution, and deeply damaging to the multiracial society based on equality which we are building.

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Die Stellenbosch tak van “Students for Law and Social Justice”, wil hiermee ons misnoeë met die “Red October” veldtog asook met die menings daarin geopper names “Die Wit Suid-Afrikaanse Etniese Minderheid”  uitspreek.

Die “Red October” veldtog maak beswaar teen die “onmenslike slagting en onderdrukking van wit persone in Suid-Afrika.” Daar word beweer dat wit Suid-Afrikaners slagoffers van “rassistiese Swart Ekonomiese Bemagtiging en Regstellende Aksie maatreëls”, ‘n “patetiese onderwysstelsel” en “gevaarlike woonbuurte” is.

Hierdie stellings neem egter nie die sosio-ekonomiese nadeel en misdaad in ag waaronder swart Suid-Afrikaners na die Apartheids era ly nie. Volgens statistiek in ‘n AfricaCheck verslag wat vroeër vanjaar uitgereik is, is slegs 1.8% van moordslagoffers wit ten spyte van die feit dat 9% van die populasie wit is. Onderliggend aan die veldtog, is dus die rassistiese Apartheids-denkwyse dat die lewe van ‘n wit persoon meer waardevol is as dié van ‘n swart person.

As ‘n liggaam van studente wat steeds hoofsaaklik wit en Afrikaans is, keur on die “Red October” veldtog af. Dit ignoreer die Regstaat beginsel en die deel van die Grondwet wat voorsiening maak vir regstellende aksie om die ongelykhede van die verlede reg te stel. Dit is aanstootlik vir beide swart en wit Suid-Afrikaners wat aan die waardes en oogmerke van die Grondwet toegewyd is, asook nadelig vir ons veelrassige samelewing wat gebasseer is op gelykheid waaraan ons besig is om te bou.

Red october: protest tegen plaasmoorde Zuid-Afrika

Red october: Protest tegen de plaasmoorde op blanke Afrikaners in ZA.
Ook enkele zwarte medemensen (-vrouwen) namen deel aan het protest.
Als het goed is zeggen we het ook natuurlijk.