ANC UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMNS AFRIFORUM AND KALLIE KRIEL FOR RACIST DISINFORMATION AND ATTACKS ON SOUTH AFRICA’S DEMOCRACY

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ANC UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMNS AFRIFORUM AND KALLIE KRIEL FOR RACIST DISINFORMATION AND ATTACKS ON SOUTH AFRICA’S DEMOCRACY 

CHANON LECODEY MERRICKS ONLINE_EDITOR©®™

The African National Congress unequivocally condemns Kallie Kriel and AfriForum for their latest actions, which constitute a reckless, racist, and deliberate campaign to undermine South Africa’s sovereignty, discredit lawful state institutions, and incite fear through manufactured disinformation. 

This conduct is no longer fringe rhetoric; it is a calculated political project aimed at destabilising our democracy and fracturing social cohesion. The lawful intervention by the Department of Home Affairs against unauthorized foreign nationals operating illegally in South Africa has been cynically distorted by AfriForum into a false narrative of racial persecution. 

This is not a misunderstanding of facts but an intentional attempt to poison public discourse, incite racial hysteria, and portray South Africa as a hostile state to external right-wing networks. Such behaviour is unpatriotic and dangerous. 

AfriForum has once again chosen to posture as a conduit for foreign political interests instead of a responsible organisation rooted in South Africa’s constitutional reality. By internationalising domestic matters, exaggerating false claims of victimhood, and lobbying external actors against our country, they reveal themselves as wedge drivers whose politics depend on division. As Isithwalandwe President OR Tambo warned, these are those who travel from ear to ear sowing discord, weakening unity, and undermining the people’s confidence in their own state. 

The ANC calls on the people of South Africa to rise and defend our democracy, rejecting AfriForum’s racist disinformation campaign. We call on workers, youth, faith communities, progressive Afrikaners, and all peaceloving South Africans to refuse to stay silent in the face of provocation. Our freedom was won through sacrifice and struggle, not so that a small group could distort reality, insult the intelligence of our people, and endanger national unity. 

We further call on the South African government to act firmly and decisively, within the law, against any organisation or individual that persistently undermines constitutional institutions, spreads racial hatred, or colludes with external forces against South Africa. Our sovereignty is non-negotiable and no one is above the law. South Africa was forged through courage, solidarity, and a shared commitment to justice and belongs to all who live in it. 

The ANC will not allow racist disinformation to reverse our gains or to drag our nation backwards. The people must speak out, defend their nation and mobilise against such elements. 

It is time we expose the truth, and defend the democratic project. 

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