Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001321/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Tiago Moreira de Sá (PfE), Tom Vandendriessche (PfE), Roberto Vannacci (PfE), Nicolas Bay (ECR), Nikola Bartůšek (PfE), Hermann Tertsch (PfE), Alexander Sell (ESN), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE), Zsuzsanna Borvendég (ESN), Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă (NI), Malika Sorel (PfE), Irmhild Boßdorf (ESN)
The Commission is channelling millions of euro in EU taxpayers’ money into supporting South Africa, while politicians such as Julius Malema, a member of South Africa’s National Assembly and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, sing murderous chants such as ‘Kill the Boer’, inciting the genocide of white farmers, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress stands by, complicit, as this minority is being destroyed. The Commission recently announced EUR 4.4 billion in support from the Global Gateway strategy for ‘fair and clean’ energy transition projects in South Africa. In this regard:
- 1.What financial and technical criteria have been adopted, providing all the effective cost-benefit studies, for the allocation of this Commission aid package to South Africa?
- 2.How is the Commission planning to protect the human rights of citizens of South Africa’s white minority against the violence to which they have been subjected, and against the new threats from several South African politicians?
- 3.How does this support for a regime that allows racial hatred fit into the specific principles of the Global Gateway, namely those concerning democracy, good governance and transparency, as well as the security of citizens?
Submitted: 31.3.2025