AfriForum warns of ‘identity attack’ as EFF pushes to remove statues

LOBBY group AfriForum has launched a fierce defence of apartheid-era monuments after the EFF tabled a parliamentary motion calling for their removal from public spaces.

- XOLILE MTEMBU

The organisation condemned the proposal as a direct assault on Afrikaner heritage and warned that dismantling such monuments would deepen divisions in an already polarised country.

“Politicians who have proven that they cannot build anything, like the EFF, are simply sncouraeng destruction and violence. Because the EFF has failed to build even one promised school, they are now focusing instead on promises to tear down statues,’ said Ernst van Zyl, AfriForum’s head of public relations.