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Right-wing elements are "misusing" the ANC's sensitivity to diversity, Gauteng secretary David Makhura says.
"We [ANC] have been extremely sensitive to the diversity of our people... we think this sensitivity has been misused by the other side," he said in Johannesburg.
"Our sensitivity has been taken for a ride... We are talking about those who oppose the transformation in South Africa."
Makhura was briefing reporters on a meeting of the tripartite alliance partners - the ANC, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party - in Gauteng.
He referred to name changes, court action against the use of struggle songs, and court applications against affirmative action as examples of this opposition.
"Right wing" action in these areas showed that they were "gain[ing] confidence to challenge the progressive and revolutionary forces on [a] number of issues".
"They have gone as far as to seek to use the courts to challenge the policies of the country," he said.
The Freedom Front Plus and AfriForum have both lodged complaints with the legal authorities over ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's singing of the song with the words "Dubula ibhunu (shoot the boer)".
In February, trade union Solidarity won an affirmative action court bid to have Captain Renate Barnard promoted to superintendent after she was denied the position by the SA Police Service over affirmative action considerations.
"Who says that the right wing itself is not there in our courts?
"We are pained by this confidence of right wing elements."
Cosatu provincial secretary Dumisane Dakile said political gains obtained through democracy were being challenged by this group in the country's courts, and also questioned whether the courts themselves were transformed.
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What a load of BS. We have a constitution to protect minorities. The "righwing" use the courts to protect themselves from the ANC. They should be happy that they are not using violence like their own supporters.