The civil rights organisation AfriForum promises to do everything in its power to oppose the EFF’s campaign to destroy Afrikaner statues and memorials. The organisation views the motion that the EFF chief whip, Nontando Nolutshungu, presented in parliament this morning on behalf of the party’s leader, Julius Malema, as a direct attack on Afrikaners’ right to exist in the country. Nolutshungu presented the issue of “colonial memory and its poisonous symbols” to parliament this morning as part of a motion for the establishment of a parliamentary ad hoc committee to investigate the continued existence of “apartheid-era statues and memorials in public spaces.”
Sam Busa