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By Sizwe Dlamini 
11h ago
CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s newly created United Independent Movement (UIM) announced Thursday that the movement and its leadership would not attend Senekal’s second meeting scheduled for Friday.
The movement, led by business magnate and former ANC national security adviser Neil de Beer, said this was in response to several calls for UIM and its leadership to attend the meeting.
UIM said many of South Africa’s leaders agreed that attending Senekal’s second meeting would detract from the main goal reached at Senekal’s first meeting, which was mourning the death of 21-year-old farmer Brendin Horner and spreading the word publicity for farm killings.
“On the other hand, there are leaders who want to spread racial hatred, going to Senekal, inciting violence and talking about the brutal confrontation in the meeting.
“They will not attend to show mourning and respect for the peasants who are brutally killed in these fierce attacks on farms. The UIM firmly wants to show that it is opposed to such calls for violence, ”reads a statement from the movement.
Former DA Mmusi Maimane leader, who runs One South Africa, joined forces with De Beer, who is also a former intelligence agent for Umkhonto we Sizwe and more recently a special adviser to the Deputy Minister of Defense and Military Veterans.
“The best idea is not just to focus on the barrier to the conflict, but to ensure that the Senekal issue does not remain an event, but rather a catalyst for the beginning of a process of reconciliation and national healing in our nation,” De Beer said.
He said farmers in this country had a right to be upset by the attacks they faced and that they had a right to believe that they had to defend themselves.
“UIM asks that the people of this nation stay home and not attend the meeting if they are not there to mourn the attacks on the farm. This will not achieve the desired result that the nation wants and needs for a united South Africa, this will only separate us further.
“The UIM and its supporters, in the strongest terms, also vehemently reject and object to leaders, for example EFF leader Julius Malema, to act as civil advocates for law enforcement and also to call a direct conflict seeking an opportunity to mourn the sad death of Brendin Horner ”
Having lost faith in the ANC, De Beer created the civil society movement to educate South Africans about their power and fundamental rights and to uplift their communities and elect independent candidates for public office.
This is after a ruling by the Constitutional Court in June that ordered Parliament to amend the electoral laws to allow independent people to stand in elections to Parliament.
“The UIM therefore wishes to call for peace and an effective plan to fight not only against the scourge of farm killings, but also against all crime in South Africa,” De Beer said. | MESS
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