Hitler admirer charged

30 June 2015 - 02:02 By Roxanne Henderson

The SA Jewish Board of Deputies has made good on its promise of last week and has complained to the police about remarks made by former Wits Students' Representative Council president Mcebo Dlamini. Dlamini made a series of comments about Jews in an interview on talk radio station PowerFM on Tuesday last week.Dlamini said: "They are devils. They are good for nothing. They are hypocritical, just like [Wits University vice-chancellor] Adam Habib. They are uncircumcised in heart."The board has also made a complaint of hate speech against Dlamini to the SA Human Rights Commission in connection with comments made by him over the past few months, including expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler.The board also wants the commission to investigate Dlamini's latest comments.The board's communications head, Charisse Zeifert, said the organisation had asked that Dlamini be criminally charge at Norwood police station, Johannesburg, on Friday.Gauteng police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said that a case of crimen injuria has been opened.Asked about the charges, Dlamini said: "I cannot comment on something that I don't know [of]."Let me see the charges. If they have taken it to court I will meet them in court."Dlamini was dismissed as SRC president in May after a university disciplinary panel found him guilty of misconduct in February.In April he said on Facebook that he "loved" Hitler. The university had said that this was not the reason for his dismissal.In an e-mail to the university's students, Habib said: "The separate matter of Dlamini's recent declaration of admiration for the fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, and what I believe to be racist comments regarding whites, did not influence my current decision to require him to step down."..

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