NORTH WEST. — Ian Cameron has reacted sharply to a social media post attributed to Andile Mngxitama, MK party MP, in which the severing of the ears of farm attack victim Donovan Marx is described as a political symbolic act.
Ian Cameron, DA MP and police spokesperson and chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on police, has described the remarks as a repugnant attempt to give torture political justification. He says no argument about land can justify the mutilation of a human being and that it is cowardly to use the suffering of a seriously injured man for racial incitement.
Cameron says he has opposed Mngxitama's racist thinking several times in Parliament. He refers among others to a debate on six June 2025 in which he spoke after Mngxitama and insisted that farm attacks must be prioritised. Willie Aucamp, the current minister of agriculture, also opposed Mngxitama's attempts to justify farm violence, according to Cameron.
He further refers to the joint report of the parliamentary portfolio committees on police and agriculture which was accepted on fifteen July 2025 with 186 votes against 75. According to Cameron the DA supported the report, while the MK party, EFF, VF Plus and United Africans Transformation voted against it.
Cameron appeals to the MK party to establish whether Mngxitama made the remarks in question, reject the message and indicate what disciplinary steps will be taken if his authorship is confirmed.
If Mngxitama did make the post, according to Cameron he should offer a correction and apology to Donovan and his family.
Cameron says the DA will also refer the matter to Parliament's joint ethics and members' interests committee so that the facts can be established and the remarks tested against MPs' ethical obligations.
He adds that the DA will continue to work for effective protection of farmers and farm workers. Donovan and his family deserve dignity and privacy while he recovers and investigators continue their work, according to him.
Approximately 22 hours ago the following post was made on a Facebook page named "Andile Mngxitama": "House negroes and their land thieving masters are crying there by twitter. Tagging Elon Musk and Trump! Just for this status update. "Ventersdorp white farmer Donovan Marx had his ears cut off during a Plaas moord aanval. Attacking the ears is symbolic to denote the refusal of land thieves to listen. No land no peace. Farm life is overdetermined by systematic violence! Blacks got killed and fed to pigs!" Mxim"
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
