Agb Voorsitter, Kanada het besluit om die Suid-Afrikaner, Brandon Huntley' vlugtelingstatus toe te ken. Die ANC se reaksie daarop dat die besluit rassisties is, is 'n oorvereenvoudiging van die situasie.
Die VF Plus en almal veroordeel rassisme en stel dat dit beveg moet word. Om 'n gebeurtenis soos hierdie egter net as rasisme te brandmerk, beveg nie rassisme nie, maar is 'n ontwyking van sekere werklikhede in Suid-Afrika.
Dit is 'n werlikheid dat wit slagoffers van misdaad in Suid-Afrika, al deur polisielede, wit honde genoem is. Die VF plus het in di verband, reeds twee klagtes by die Menseregtekommissie gel teen die polisielede en wag nog steeds vir die uitslag.
Dit is 'n werklikheid dat die vorige Minister van Polisie, mnr Charles Nqakula, hier in die Parlement verkeerdelik ges het dat dit altyd net wit lede is wat kla oor misdaad en vir my ges het om op te hou kla of ek moet die land verlaat.
Dit is 'n werklikheid dat 'n ANC-LP al hier in die Parlement ges het alles wat die witmense het, het hulle gesteel van swartmense.
Dit is ook 'n werklikheid dat die ANC se jeugleier, Julius Malema, graag rassisme aanblaas met sy deurlopende beskuldigings teen witmense.
Dit is dan geen wonder dat mense die land verlaat en dat sekere eensydige persepsies oor Suid-Afrika in 'n land soos Kanada, bestaan nie. Die toestaan van vlugtelingstatus aan Brandon Huntley moet eerder gesien word as 'n wekroep van slagoffers van misdaad in Suid-Afrika. Dit plaas verder 'n groot verantwoordelikheid op die ANC regering om die misdaad situasie en hierdie negatiewe persepsies oor Suid-Afrika in die buiteland te verander. Dankie. (Translation of Afrikaans member's statement follows.)
[Mr P J GROENEWALD (FF Plus): Hon Chairperson, Canada has decided to grant the South African, Brandon Huntley, asylum status. The ANC's reaction to this decision was to cry racism, which is an over-simplification of this situation.
The FF Plus, and everyone else, condemns racism and states that we must combat racism. To brand such event as racist does nothing to combat racism. Rather, it is a shunning of certain realities in South Africa.
It is a fact that some members of the police referred to white victims of crime as white dogs. The FF Plus has in this regard laid two charges against the two police members with the Human Rights Commission, and we are still awaiting the outcome.
It is a fact that the previous Minister of Police Mr Charles Nqakula wrongly stated here in Parliament that only the white members are always complaining about crime. He suggested that I either stop complaining about crime, or leave the country.
It is a fact that an ANC MP had said here in Parliament that everything that white people own, they stole from black people.
It is also a fact that the youth leader of the ANC, Julius Malema, is fond of exacerbating racism with his continuous accusations against white people.
It is no wonder then that people are leaving the country and that certain one-sided perceptions about South Africa exist in countries like Canada. Rather, the granting of asylum status to Brandon Huntley should be regarded as a clarion call from victims of crime in South Africa. Furthermore, it places a huge responsibility on the ANC government to change the negative perceptions of South Africa overseas. Thank you.]