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(8)  September 2024  -  Die Hoorn :    

 

  (7)  5 Julie 2024  -  Die Hoorn :    

  

  (6)  14 Junie 2024  -  Die Hoorn : 'n Geveg teen identiteitsontkenning


  (5)  September 2022  -  Constituting of the Oudtshoorn-Khoi community

          Snyman met with the loyal PARC supporters and members in the community who regarded themselves as Khoi

          people to discuss the application to be recognise as Khoi people in South Africa by the government, under the 

          Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act of 2019. The members felt that we should go ahead with the application

          for everyone that is interested to be identified as such. Hence then the Oudtshoorn-Khoi Community was constituted

          in September 2022. Ever since then we are still taking guidance and waiting on the national Commission on

          Khoi-San Matters (CKSM) on certain things that needs to be done. But, we continue our fight against the 

          denial/ontkenning of our cultural identity as Khoi people locally, provincially and nationally. 


  

  (4)  25 March 2022       -  The national Commission on Khoi-San Matters (CKSM) launches recognition application process.

         1 September 2021 -  The Commission on Khoi-San Matters (CKSM) started its work.

          1 April 2021           -  The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act 3 of 2019 was signed into law.  


  (3)  28 January 2021 -  Not racial identity, but cultural identity.

         On 28 January 2021 Snyman released his first novel, the Blind man's race. In this book he tries to describe how

         a court case would look like if race classification would be put on trail. He also tells about the history of the 

         Afrikaans and the Khoi-language. The need for a cultural identity is also highlighted. He was one of the first 

         students to do the Khoekhoegowab on-line language course at the University of Cape Town in September 2020.


  (2)  23 September 2020 -  Charged by the Education Department for being African.

          As part of PARC's civil disobedience campaign, we encourage all South African's to tick the African race block

          on all forms when applying for a state job or whenever they had to fill out their race data. In September 2020

          Glen Snyman became the first person to be charged in a new South Africa for ticking the African block on a 

          job application form. The Education Department told him that he was not an "African", but a Coloured. As soon

          as the news of this charge was first published in the media on the morning of his hearing, the 4 October 2020,

          the Education Department immediately withdrew the charges. The news became world news. It was a victory

          for PARC! All people that live in South Africa is an "African" / Afrikaan / Afrikane. The race classification law, the

          Population Registration Act of 1950 was scrapped by parliament in 1991. No law currently exist to determine

          your race. You can be and tick whatever race you want to be and tick.

   

  (1)  1 October 2010  -  Founding of PARC: People Against Race Classification - www.parcsa.co.za.

          On the 1st of October 2010 we started an activist group / drukgroep, PARC, to fight the government's race classification

          policies. Whenever you have to apply for a state job or you have to fill out a government form, you have to every time 

          indicate your racial lineage. We as well as other Khoi-San grouping across South Africa demanded government to do

          away with the race blocks on forms (Coloured, Black, African, White and Indian). We said that Apartheid is long time over 

          and that this was a new form of Apartheid discrimination. We suggested that government use a poverty barometer to

          address past injustices and those people that are still in need of jobs, etc. PARC even took the matter to the South African

          Parliament and was interviewed by parliament on the 24 February 2022. We hope to take this matter to a High Court in

          the near future. We have been in this fight for the recognition of our cultural identity as Khoi people for the last 13 years.