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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have once again strive to remove all so-called colonial symbols from the Free State’s province. The party will table a motion containing allegations that blacks have no images of heroes in the Free State and that only white heroes are represented in the Free State, during the upcoming legislative session on October 22, 2019.

The EFF demands that historical symbols, as seen in the Fourth Council Chamber, as well as the statue of Gen. Christiaan de Wet, to be removed. In its motion, the EFF argues that the removal of these symbols will contribute to the eradication of colonialism.

Jan van Niekerk, provincial leader of the FF plus in the Free State believes that this attack on Afrikaner history contradicts nation-building and promotes racial polarization. He argues that the history of all racial groups must be respected. He adds that Gen. de Wet, however, fought against colonialism and had no involvement in the apartheid era. The FF Plus is
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The victims would have qualify for aid from the Fund that included assistance for housing, health services and proper education. However, they are still waiting for the support. It seems like the ANC-regime just forgot about these so called victims and exploited the funds for the party’s own benefit.

It is almost a quarter of a century after FW de Klerk and Tutu shook hands on the matter, but now thousands still wait to receive a helping hand.

In 2003, the so-called Presidents Fund was established to assist the victims, but it appears that the ANC government does not fulfill their promises just as in the past, except when they can rob the whites of their land, one has victim apparently said.

There is an expectation among victims that the government should give them a one-time assistance payment of R30,000. Calculations show that such a payment will be to the thousands of victims, Billions of Rand, who can not do the bankrupt country withou
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SA’s past cannot be rewritten or changed – EFF’s motion to remove so-called colonial symbols across SA promotes racial polarization

A quarter of a century later, after FW de Klerk and Tutu set up the Presidents Fund, thousands of victims of the apartheid era are still waiting for compensation, fingers are now pointing to ANC regime who might have exploited the funds