Kallie Kriel, the CEO of AfriForum, says he is not having any sleepless nights over allegations of fresh Investigations by the Hawks.
Kriel was responding to a statement by the Hawks who confirmed that they were indeed probing four dockets of high treason.
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and other parties or individuals are said to have registered the complaints following allegations that US President Donald Trump was misled about the land issue. This led to Trump attacking South Africa, accusing it of human rights abuses against Afrikaners.
He says the allegations against the Afrikaaner organizations, the Solidarity movement and AfriForum among others, are baseless and they will prove them in a court of law.
Kriel says before going to seek help from the US, they wrote countless letters to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The intention was to seek his audience over Land Expropriation and BELA Acts among others, but he simply ignored them.
While Hawks Head General Godfrey Lebeya did not want to be drawn into whom the cases of High Treason were opened against, he says the priority crimes unit will not hesitate to arrest anyone should the prosecutorial authority find High Treason was committed.
“Indeed, we are apolitical when it comes to the complaint. We don’t discriminate whether they belong to a political party or not. There are four dockets opened by different people, maybe different political parties, that concern some individuals who may have crossed the border and communicated some things that may seem to be in the direction of high treason. I don’t want to mention the names of organisations, but as you say, there are some organisations that are suspected of actually advocating for high treason. We are still at the initial stage of the investigation of those crimes, but we need to be careful how we collect that evidence.”
