Johannesburg - Calls for action to be taken against high court Judge Mabel Jansen have grown on social media platforms.
The controversial judge of the high court in Pretoria trended on Monday night after she posted remarks on Twitter seemingly attacking black people for always playing victim and blaming apartheid.
In her tweets, Judge Jansen wrote: “Those who wish to blame apartheid or 'colonialism'? Did you read what the Brits did to the Boers? Lord Kitchener’s scorched earth policy.”
She also said black people were lazy thinkers. “So how many of you have your own original thoughts? Or do you need a WHITE person to tell you how to think??? Surely not?
“High time that you got your own independent voice. Your youth are super intelligent and highly competent. Speak for yourselves. You can.”
Social media users lashed at her, accusing her of being racist. Among them was @Amandla-Mobi, who started a portal to petition the Judicial Service Commission (JSE) to remove her. “If we’re serious about creating a non-racist Mzansi (South Africa) then we would support the call to remove #MabelJansen,” he tweeted.
On Tuesday, the portal http://www.amandla.mobi/ showed that 257 emails had been sent to the JSC. A message on the site reads: “Send a message to the JSC to stop downplaying the racist Facebook comments by Judge Mabel Jansen, and act swiftly in removing her from her position.”
Another person, @new_afrika, demanded swift action against the judge: “Processes, processes, processes... the evidence is out there; just fire the racist Judge Mabel Jansen.”
@KsKhathi said: “Immediate actions must be taken against #Mabel Jansen. This tweet’s kernel underestimates our intelligence as blacks.”
Comment from the JSC was not immediately available. Judge Jansen was suspended last month after film-maker Gillian Schutte exposed her racist post shared on Facebook.
In that post, the judge mentions murder, and gang rape of babies, daughters and mothers as pleasurable pastimes among black communities.
Judge Jansen took to Twitter, calling Schuttea coward who put her family’s lives in danger.
The Star