Afriforum v. Malema: 'Kaffir' Struggle Activism: RH Correspondence to, and from, Steve Hofmeyr

From: Steve Hofmeyr
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:50 AM
To: Lara Johnstone
Subject: RE: Jhb. Bar Soc.: Complaint: Req. for Info: RE: Adv. Henno Viljoen, Advocates Group 21, Mweb K****r Complaint

Lara

Thank you. I have reread your initial bulky post. We don’t really do this (my consuming inbox will astound you) unless what enters are contracts we await or unless we are served by law. I must admit, I’m not quite sure what you are wanting to say. Definition discrepancies or an attack on the modus operandi of my campaign?

But I can not be radicalised by straw men set up from things I did not say.

I can not be told that I am racist when I'm NOT and have 46 years of South African living to proof it. I am an old drama school commie, extremely liberal (the first TUT black student was in my class I’m proud to say!) and I have yet to insult any South African for their skin colour per se. What I do get is non-Afrikaners prescribing to me what kind of mortality rate we should learn to accept and what kind of bullying young Afrikaner farmer-families should accept as karma for some bygone era.

I have not and will not use the K word (not even in historical or statistical correct context as I would have) & have as a reconciliatory gesture, dropped it from the song. Should courts give Malema and the ANC the green light for hate speech such as KILL THE BOER (which simply hasnt enter your thoughts, has it?), it will be open season on national insults. With or without my help. This was the point and condition of my threat. Off course, that same Monday judge Leon Halgryn deemed KILL THE BOER môre than hate speech, it “enticed murder”.

It has to be said that my “racial” definition of the K word has ample historical backing, libraries of proof of voluminous historical usage and I don’t believe you are radically honest if you think your definition is absolutely and solely, the one. As the hate speech court accepts, there are indeed different contextual uses of terminology.

I reply only because I can see you do treat the subject with serious concern. But please remember that the multicultural nation is an ideal, NOT a lot of South Africans assimilating to YOUR culture, lifestyle, values and mother tongue. That is wishful thinking.

Lastly, you must know that this is the worse time in history to prescribe to other tribes and nations on how to react to their loses, how much to mourn their dead and how high the hairs in their necks should stand up at what were are witnessing around us. I can not acclimatize to our continuous and hopeless index failure worldwide.

Am I still reading you wrong? Hope not. Have you misread me? Maybe. But a short summary of your intensions, as well as those of Adv. Henno Viljoen, Advocates Group 21, will be welcomed.

Thanks
Steve Hofmeyr

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