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In April 2018, it emerged that Dutton's department had previously blocked asylum applications by a white farmer, and another white South African woman on the basis that "the vast majority of crimes against whites are not racially motivated", and on the basis that there was no evidence of racial persecution, with the decisions upheld by the ...
The FW de Klerk Foundation reported that there are social media posts inciting extreme violence against white South Africans, and these posts come mostly from black South Africans. It appealed to the South African Human Rights Commission to intervene on the issue of racism and hate speech against white South Africans. Its complaint to the ...
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [104] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [105]
Later in October of 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa called the murder "an appalling act of cruelty" but denounced the claim it was an anti-white hate crime, as well as the claim white farmers are being targeted by black people with mention of South Africa's problems with violent crimes and stating, "the majority of victims … are black and poor."
Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races. The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex outside of marriage between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 […] The post Here’s how genocide became a crime and why South Africa accused Israel of it ...
That's reflected in poverty statistics, with a 2021 study by the South African Human Rights Commission finding that 64% of Black people were living in poverty against 1% of white people.
The Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind recognizes apartheid as a crime on the basis of institutionalized racial discrimination as a species of crimes against humanity. The first reading was in 1991 by the International Law Commission and was read without the mention being specifically on South Africa.