Complaint at Human Rights Council over Africa Check claim that ‘white women are more likely to be murdered by their lovers than by black men in SA’. April 9 2014: The Freedom Front Plus party and two Afrikaans artists and human rights activists, Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr, have submitted an official complaint at the Human Rights Commission in SA against two researchers at a rather murky crime-research group called ‘Africa Check’ , Ms Nechama Brodie and Lisa Vetten.
Freedom Front Plus spokeswoman for its Women’s committee, said the complaint is based on an article in ‘Rapport’ weekly Afrikaans newspaper on 29 June 2013 in which Nechama Brodie was quoted as saying on behalf of Africa Check that ‘A white woman has a better chance of being murdered by her lover or friend than she would be an unknown black man (in South Africa’….
