/ MEDIA STATEMENT / The content on this page is not written by Polity.org.za, but is supplied by third parties. This content does not constitute news reporting by Polity.org.za.

The FF Plus will today be reading and presenting two submissions on farm murders and the official discriminating against Afrikaans, to the general council of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) in Brussels, Belgium.

(The resolutions are attached to the media release).

UNPO will be discussing the resolutions this weekend and a result will be given early next week.

Dr. Pieter Groenewald, chairperson of the FF Plus and Mr. Wouter Wessels, national youth leader, has been in Brussels in the past week and, amongst others, had attended an executive committee meeting of UNPO.

Dr. Groenewald said it has become increasingly important to bring the message about the ANC government’s abuses against minorities in South Africa and in particular issues such as farm murders and Afrikaans, to the attention of the international community.

He said that if UNPO accepts the resolutions, it means the organisation has a mandate and an obligation to take steps and bring it to the attention of international bodies such as the European Union.

According to Dr. Groenewald, farm murders in South Africa compared to international norms could rightfully be viewed as genocide and the United Nations Human Rights Commission now has to force the ANC government to take urgent measures to put a stop to it.

UNPO will also be asked to take note of the trampling of Afrikaans and systematic eradication of Afrikaans, especially in the education system, which includes basic and higher education.

·         This latest action of the FF Plus follows on a visit last year of the leader, Dr. Pieter Mulder, at the end of 2014 to UNPO and the UN in Geneva, where the international community was also informed about farm murders, Afrikaans, affirmative action and other abuses against minorities in the country.
·         In November 2013, the FF Plus in conjunction with UNPO hosted an international conference at Parliament in Cape Town where group rights and self-determination, amongst others, were discussed. Well-known individuals in academic circles as well as various other prominent leaders in the brown and Khoisan communities attended the successful conference.

Issued by FF Plus