Xenophobic tweet by PA's Gayton McKenzie

Outcome

Overview

PA's Gayton McKenzie states that its unlawful for foreign nationals to receive oxygen (in hospitals) while South Africans were dying [during COVID-19]. The complainant submits that this constitutes hate speech.

Background & Outcome

Although the post does not satisfy the legal criteria for hate speech, it constitutes language that "may provoke violence during an election", in terms of the Electoral Code of Conduct. and is thus in violation thereof.

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