Afrikaner Foundation executive director Ernst Roets and self-proclaimed protagonist for Afrikaner self-determination, recently had an interview with far-right media personality Tucker Carlson.
In the conversation, Roets brought up Nhlamulo 'Nota' Baloyi who recently said that white people are inferior Neanderthals and is currently under investigation by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Roets then claimed that such narratives are taught in universities.
"There was a video that went viral on social media of this guy talking about how white people are subhuman. This is taught at universities in SA. There is something called the Azania critical theory. Azania is a Pan-African word for SA, and they actually get this from Americans, and they put an African flavour on it," said Roets.
Human rights activist and academic Dr Tristán Kapp dispelled Roets' claims, explaining the Azania critical theory as: "An intellectual framework that examines the enduring impact of race and racism in SA, particularly through the lens of Azanian political thought. The Azanian perspective challenges the legitimacy of the post-1994 constitutional democracy, arguing that it fails to address the foundational injustices of colonialism and apartheid.
"Instead, Azanian thought advocates for a radical reimagining of the nation's identity and structures, emphasising the need for decolonisation and the affirmation of black consciousness."
Kapp went on to say that the theory does not teach that white people are inferior to black people. Rather, it critiques South Africa's past and contemporary racial oppression systems.
Roets also claimed that American intellectuals who have influenced this theory include Ta-Nehisi Coates whom Carlson has been vocally critical of.
"It essentially boils down to a theory that justifies the targeting and extermination of the white minority. There is an African term called Ubuntu which means brotherliness or humanity. It's a Zulu term. The theory goes that white people are incapable of having Ubuntu," Roets added.
Roets went on to say that because Ubuntu is the essence of being human and those that don't have it are not human.
"The logical conclusion is that if you kill a white person, then you did not commit murder. This is not widely believed in South Africa, but it is taught at universities," he claimed.
His inflammatory remarks come as the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) confirmed that high treason dockets have been opened in response to allegations that misleading information about SA was being propagated in the US.
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