DA municipal speaker's 'monkey jibe' reported as 'hate speech' to SAHRC

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DA municipal speaker's 'monkey jibe' reported as 'hate speech' to SAHRC
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ActionSA has lodged a complaint of hate speech with the South African Human Rights Commission against a DA municipal speaker over a social media post that associated EFF members with monkeys during the national shutdown.

ActionSA has lodged a complaint of hate speech with the South African Human Rights Commission against a DA municipal speaker over a social media post that associated EFF members with monkeys during the national shutdown.

The EFF said it would do the same and called on Cederberg municipality speaker John Hayes to immediately step down over the “dehumanising and degrading” post — subsequently deleted — depicting monkeys removing the hubcap of a car wheel.Hayes deleted the post and apologised. “It is impossible to post something that everyone will like. We are 1 [one] in our diversity and must respect each other through this,” he wrote in a post on Facebook.“If I offended you with a certain post ...

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