{"id":1252,"date":"2022-11-18T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:21:34","slug":"cape-forum-lodges-complaint-at-sahrc-over-professors-reference-to-white-students-as-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/cape-forum-lodges-complaint-at-sahrc-over-professors-reference-to-white-students-as-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Forum lodges complaint at SAHRC over professor\u2019s reference to white students as dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The civil rights organisation Cape Forum considers Professor Jonathan Jansen\u2019s reference to white male students at the Stellenbosch University (SU) as \u201cdogs\u201d in a column he wrote for TimesLive <\/em>to be uncalled for, inflammatory and insulting. Cape Forum lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the matter and to act on it if they also deem these comments inhumane, hateful and hurtful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The column written by Jansen was in response to the report by the Khampepe Commission on the alleged racism at SU. Jansen wrote that, \u201cjust like dogs use urine to mark their territory and anxiety, white male students use the same strategy to protest black incursion into their intimate spaces, such as residences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistory has taught us about the danger of labelling members of a certain community, ethnic or cultural group as some kind of animal or insect, be that South African Penny Sparrow calling black citizens \u2018monkeys\u2019 or a Rwandan politician referring to Tutsis as \u2018cockroaches\u2019 which contributed to the occurrence of genocide in 1994 in his country,\u201d says Heindrich Wyngaard, Executive Chairperson at the Cape Forum. \u201cThese remarks by Jansen makes no constructive contribution to unrooting racist actions from our democratic society, which should in all instances be condemned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The civil rights organisation Cape Forum considers Professor Jonathan Jansen\u2019s reference to white male students at the Stellenbosch University (SU) as \u201cdogs\u201d in a column he wrote for TimesLive to be uncalled for, inflammatory and insulting. Cape Forum lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the matter and to act…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"Media Statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Heindrich-Wyngaard-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/author\/chante-kelder\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"Media Statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":76,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":21,"category_count":76,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media Statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Heindrich-Wyngaard-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaapseforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}