The DA will lodge a complaint against UCT lecturer, Lwazi Lushaba, with the South African Human Rights Commission following his racist comments regarding Adolf Hitler on a pre-recorded lecture. - @Natasha9Mazzone https://www.da.org.za/2021/04/da-reports-lwazi-lushaba-to-human-rights-commission-over-hitler-comments

Reports confirm that Lushaba made the following comments: “Hitler committed no crime. All Hitler did was to do to white people what white people had normally reserved for black people.” - @Natasha9Mazzone

The Holocaust was unequivocally a crime against humanity orchestrated by Hitler. The DA therefore strongly condemns the comments made by Lushaba. - @Natasha9Mazzone

His comments were not only racist, offensive and vile, but also completely insensitive to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and the Jewish community as a whole. - @Natasha9Mazzone

South Africa’s Jewish community will today observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. - @Natasha9Mazzone

In remembering the victims of the Holocaust, we must place a renewed sense of responsibility on those in positions of power and influence to defend the truth and to defend our democracy against any racist or anti-Semitic sentiments. - @Natasha9Mazzone

Lushaba has a long history of offensive and controversial actions. In 2019, he allegedly took exception to one of the contender’s in UCT’s election of its Dean of Humanities being Tanzanian and not South African. - @Natasha9Mazzone

In an interview with Power FM, Lushaba stated that “reason and rationality are white”. - @Natasha9Mazzone

Lushaba was also suspended by Wits back in 2015 for “participating in activities which were not conducive to free and fair elections and were intolerant to a democratic society”. - @Natasha9Mazzone

The DA has taken note that UCT will probe Lushaba’s comments and we urge the institution’s Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng to place him on suspension pending the investigation. - @Natasha9Mazzone