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It’s hoped that the Hate Crimes Bill will help stem attacks against vulnerable groups, including the LGBTIQ+ community
A dispute between the DA and the deputy minister of justice has highlighted the party’s opposition to the long-awaited Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. It’s a stance that some might say contradicts the DA’s claim to be an LGBTIQ+ ally.
Earlier this month, Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Justice And Correctional Services, lashed out at Deputy Minister of Justice John Jeffery for comments he made in connection to the contentious Bill.
In a statement, Breytenbach claimed that Jeffery had asserted “that white Afrikaners were the biggest perpetrators of hate crime and hate speech in South Africa” in a reply to a question by the Freedom Front Plus.
Describing the Bill as “ill-conceived [and] draconian”, Breytenbach also went on to list the party’s reasons as to why it “will continue to oppose it in Parliament”.
These include the DA’s belief that hate should be an aggravating circumstance in sentencing rather than becoming an entirely new form of crime; that the Bill will not address the root causes of crimes motivated by hate, only the symptoms; and that it could be used as a political tool.
The DA also argues that the Hate Crimes Bill’s hate speech provision could lead to individuals and the media being forced to self-censor which “will result in a substantially chilling effect on freedom of expression across society”.
The party further fears the Bill’s requirements “will place a heavy burden on an already under-resourced NPA [National Prosecuting Authority], and amounts, in effect, to double legislating.” Finally, the DA stated that “the list of characteristics and grounds upon
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