Mohamed Ameen Dabhelia – 2018/03/16

The South African government has rebuked Australian minister Peter Dutton’s suggestion that white South African farmers need help from a “civilised country”.

This emerged following growing calls for a debate over redistribution of land to black citizens.

The International Relations Department says the remarks by Dutton is regrettable and that white farmers are not at risk.

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s department released a statement claiming that there is no reason for any government anywhere in the world to suspect that any South African is in danger from their own democratically elected government.

“That threat simply does not exist.”

Spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance Greg Barnes – told Radio Islam that Dutton has been leading a campaign linked to ‘Africans’ in Melbourne.

“One can see his remarks about South African farmers, in the context of this being another race based attack on Africa and African nations.”

Barnes says Dutton is well known for being in contempt of court and the rule of law.

“He is a person who belongs in Trumps’ America.”

Barnes adds that Dutton lacks compassion and sympathy.

“He doesn’t care about the land Afghans’s lost, doesn’t care about the Palestinians, or the Rohingya. He likes white South African farmers, for one, they white. And two, it enables him to continue his narrative that black South Africans are uncivilised.”

Barnes notes that Dutton took a direct swipe at the ANC led government, when he said, “white farmers need to be saved by a civilised government.”

Sisulu says they will not allow anybody (right wing or not) to use an opportunity which the South African government is trying to tread sensitively on, abuse that by creating panic.