- As the 2019 parliamentary election is approaching in South Africa, racist and hate speeches are obviously on the increase
- The leader of a political party in the country, Andile Mngxitama, has called on his supporters to kill white men, women and children
- Defending his comment, Mngxitama said that he was actually referring to Johann Rupert, a supporter of the taxi industry that reportedly kills blacks
Andile Mngxitama, the leader of a South African political party, Black First Land First (BLF) has called for the killing of white women and children as his response to the taxi industry reportedly killing blacks.
Mngxitama said this at a recent rally in Potchefstroom near Johannesburg. Cheering a crowd, he said: "For each one person that is being killed by the taxi industry, we will kill five white people. For every one black person we will kill five white people," Daily Mail reports.
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'You kill one of us we will five of you. We'll kill their women, we'll kill their children, we'll kill anything we find in our way.'
In reply to Mngxitama's declaration, the crowd asked: "For every one of them, we'll kill how many?"
He responded: "We'll kill their children, we'll kill their women, we'll kill their dogs, we'll kill their cats, we'll kill anything."
After his comments, Mngxitama had claimed that these comments were taken out of context and that he was responding to billionaire Johann Rupert, a supporter of the taxi industry.
Rupert has been said to have referred to the far-left EFF party in a recent interview where he stated if 'those red guys come' they should remember he had his 'own army.'
Responding to Rupert's statement, Mngxitama on Tuesday, December 11, said: "Johann Rupert sits there with absolute arrogance claiming he has a private army that he can unleash."
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The BLF politician said that Rupert had displayed insensitivity with his comments because any person would know that in South Africa's taxi industry people get killed, adding that the party would be in parliament come 2019.
On the development, the ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa, for South Africa's leading party, said: 'The rant about 'killing white people' shows an extent of [Mngxitama's] ignorance to the history of this country."
The ANC also called on the South African commission for human rights to probe Mngxitama remarks.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a member of Osun House of Assembly, had called on the international community to prevail on South African government to stop xenophobia killing of Nigerians.
Oyintiloye told newsmen on Wednesday, April 25, in Osogbo that the recent killing of a Nigerian in xenophobia attack in South Africa was barbaric, inhuman and unacceptable to Nigerians.
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