Brackenfell racism row: Complaint lodged against EFF’s Nazier Paulsen

The Brackenfell High School saga has taken another twist after the Democratic Alliance (DA) took action to refer Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP Nazier Paulsen to the Parliamentary ethics committee. Paulsen’s use of “offensive and derogatory” terms referring to coloured people have caused outrage on social media and left the DA seething.

Paulsen used terms such as “brown pets” and “monkey face” when decrying what he believes is complicit racism within the coloured community in the Western Cape suburb of Brackenfell, which became the latest epicentre for festering racial tension in South Africa last week.

Paulsen in hot water over racial slurs

Several posts on Paulsen’s Facebook page in recent days contain language directed at coloured members of the Brackenfell community and beyond, who the EFF Mp says are being taken for a ride by their white counterparts who Paulsen says are undeserving of coloured support.

back link building services=0></a></div><p>“You like being the brown pet to white people. Your entire backward, racist family with defend your ‘brownsplaining’ because it’s an achievement for brown people to associate with white people,” he wrote on 10 November. “You’ll even invite those white people to family functions to show off your ‘achievement’.”</p><blockquote class=wp-block-quote><p>“You’ll even defend white racists just so that you can be accepted and your brownness overlooked. I’ve got news for you. You’re like their tame pet. They tell their friends and families that you’re not like other brownies,” he continued. </p></blockquote><p>“Brown pets, you know mos who you are. Over here with your ‘dry’ and ‘damaged’ reasoning,” he said in a post a day later. In another post, he declared that “nothing beats taking the p**s out of white people’s brown pets”.</p><figure class=

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DA seething over remarks about coloured community

DA Chief Whip Natasha Mazzone said on Monday 16 November that Paulsen’s rhetoric is “dehumanising, derogatory, and offensive to the coloured community”.

“The Democratic Alliance (DA) has laid a complaint against the EFF Member of Parliament, Nazier Paulsen with Parliament’s Ethics Committee, following a series of very offensive and derogatory posts about the Coloured community on his social media,” she announced.