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PRAAG invites the media tomorrow morning at 8.30 for 9.00 to attend the handing over of a letter to Judge Halgryn at the Randburg Magistrate's Court in which the application of international law, read together with the South African Act 27 of 2002 is demanded. This law incorporated the Rome Statute into South African legislation and therefore both genocide and incitement to genocide are punishable crimes in South Africa, as they are elsewhere in the world.

Place: Room G057, Randburg Magistratre's Court, 18 Shepherd Avenue, Kensington B, Randburg.

Time: 8.30 for 9.00.

The Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, that attended the court session on 29 November in Johannesburg where the ANC was asking for leave to appeal the ban on the song "Shoot the Boers", wants to call the judge's attention, with respect, to the absence of any arguments in court on international law, as well as Act 27 of 2002. The organisation believes that this element is of cardinal importance for the judge to deliver a fair verdict.

After the handing over of the letter, Dr. Dan Roodt of PRAAG will go to Pretoria to deliver a similar letter to the National Prosecuting Authority in which that body is requested to prosecute Mr. Julius Malema and other ANC officials guilty of incitement to genocide against Afrikaners.

"It is a characteristic of genocide that it is firstly, passed over in silence or denied," Dr. Roodt said. "Secondly, incitement always takes place. Both elements, the silence and the incitement, are already present in South Africa."