/ 9 June 2010

SA farmer sends affidavit to International Criminal Court

Julius Malema incites his followers to rape, torture and murder Afrikaans farmer, says an affidavit handed to the International Criminal Court.

ANC Youth league leader Julius Malema incites his followers to rape, torture and murder Afrikaans farm owners, according to an affidavit handed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Tuesday.

“Mister Julius Sello Malema in his capacity as leader of the ANCYL, through and by his illegal actions incites his followers to get support for the violent nationalisation of the farm land belonging to private Afrikaner individuals and through intimidation in the national media by cruel criminal acts of murder, rape and torture in contravention of General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962 of the United Nations,” the document says.

The document, prepared by the F&F Attorneys, was sent to the ICC on behalf of a farmer who asked in the affidavit to remain anonymous.

It says that Malema was well aware of the statistics regarding the “very high incidence” of murder, rape and torture committed against farmers.

The document says Malema continued inciting violence against Afrikaners after a “severe public outcry”, after requests by institutions and politicians and in contravention of an urgent court order and interdict against his use of the call for genocide.

“Mister Malema deliberately and intentionally … during a period of several weeks called for, on national and international television and through the printed media, the killing of the boer and the farmer, intentionally committing the heinous international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, of murder, extermination, torture and rape.”

The affidavit says 2 380 members of the “minority” Afrikaner group were murdered in the past 16 years. Many women and children had been raped and in many cases perpetrators had tortured “without reason”.

Youth league ‘disgusted’
It says the ANC government denied the gravity of the situation “at all cost” despite the murder of Afrikaners being the highest of any group in the world per capita.

The ANC youth league said it was disgusted by “the insanity” shown by “some Afrikaner farmer” for lodging the complaint.

“The ANCYL is disgusted by the attention seeking sentiments and insanity of some Afrikaner farmer from Rustenburg who has reportedly lodged a complaint with the ICC about the singing of liberation songs in South Africa’s ANC-led liberation movement,” the league said in a statement.

The ANCYL said the laying of the charges was an attempt by right-wing elements to divert it from its main political programmes.

“The issue of liberation songs is currently before South African courts, which have issued an interim interdict on the singing of some of the liberation songs until the ANC has successfully defended its struggle and liberation songs and heritage.”

According to Beeld, the Rustenburg farmer and his family left South Africa last week for safety fears after deciding to lay the charge against Malema. – Sapa