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"There is also much frustration about the supposed severe levels of white supremacy at this university. Yet, we are having this discussion on the campus of a university with a black vice-rector and a black rector and a black chancellor, in a municipal ward that has a black councillor, in a city with a black mayor in a province with a black premier, in a country with a black deputy-president and a black president. Despite this, we are somehow discussing how white people control everything."
"There is a very clear upward variance in farm attacks and farm murders after high-profile incidents of hate speech"
"Our analysis of five incidents of hate speech from high political leaders against farmers indicated that farm murders in the months following these incidents increased by an average of 74.8%"
"The biggest historic fallacy of our time is that white people stole the land"
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth, because they don't want their illusions destroyed"
"Two decades after the destruction of the Anglo Boer War, the Afrikaners didn't blame the past for all their troubles. They baked and sold koeksisters, they started companies, they organized fundraisers to build schools and universities... Entitlement ideology increases poverty."
"Its just plain racist to say the colour of your skin determines if you are a legitimate owner of land"
"Our leaders should stop singing about murdering people"
"There is a climate in which violence towards farmers is being romanticized by politicians"
"We believe there are important reasons why the US should take a stance on what is happening in South Africa"