NATIONAL NEWS - Black First Land First (BLF) president Andile Mngxitama’s Twitter account has been suspended for seven days over his “kill whites” threats.
Mngxitama’s series of tweets on Sunday threatening that he and his followers would kill white people and their pets were reported by enough people to get his account suspended, while others renewed calls for him to be prosecuted for hate speech.
It seems he acted too late when he deleted a video he posted on Twitter of him saying he would kill five white people for every black person killed in the taxi industry as Twitter picked up that, as well as other comments he’d made, as “hateful conduct”.
The BLF leader, however, said that he had been speaking in the context of “self-defence” and was being misunderstood and taken out of that supposed context.
“White people have convinced themselves that they can unleash violence upon blacks and blacks have no right to fight back. Fighting back is considered a viilation of the sanctity of whiteness.”
In fact, Mngxitama said it was “rubbish” that whites were calling for his Twitter account to be shut down.
“Can you believe it? Whites believe we have no right to self defence.”
The BLF’s deputy president, Zanele Lwana, has criticised Twitter for suspending Mngxitama’s account, saying she saw nothing wrong with his tweets.
“The only sin committed by BLF president is defending black people. President Mngxitama correctly stated that for every one black life taken, five whites would be taken!”
