Trade union Solidarity says it will lay charges at the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Equality Court against members of the Black First Land First (BLF) movement on behalf of several of the parents of the victims of the recent Hoërskool Driehoek disaster in Vanderbijlpark.
Solidarity said it would also lay a charge at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and request that the BLF be banned from participating in the upcoming general election.
Solidarity Chief Executive Dr Dirk Hermann, said they received a mandate from several of the affected parents to institute legal action against the BLF and its leaders.
"As a parent and a South African I am absolutely appalled by the BLF members’ remarks and by Lindsay Maasdorp’s delighting in and celebrating the news on social media that four white children had died in the accident," said Lucille Olivier, one of the parents in the school community.
Hermann said that racial hatred expressed by fringe figures cannot be ignored. If ignored, it will become the norm, he said.
Hermann added that Solidarity’s legal action would be threefold and would begin with a charge of crimen injuria. - ANA
