'They threaten to kill our leaders' - SA

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The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) must provide protection to the national organiser of the Landless People's Movement (LPM), Mangaliso Kubheka, and retract its hate-speech finding against him, the body said on Tuesday.

The SAHRC found Kubheka guilty of hate speech after he was reported to have said that members of the LPM would not vote in the upcoming election and that instead they would "take farms and chase away white farmers like dogs".

The LPM again denied that Kubheka or any other member of the organisation had made such statements.

"The SAHRC must retract its so-called hate-speech 'finding' against LPM national organiser Mangaliso Kubheka, and provide protection to Kubheka, his family and other LPM members whose lives have been placed in jeopardy by the SAHRC pronouncements," the statement reads.

The LPM accused the SAHRC of "gross procedural irregularities" when making its decision.

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