Excerpt: The Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) has now received written confirmation from the Department of Home Affairs that South Africans are not legally classified by race. Race is not recorded, stored, or required by the State — yet BBBEE continues to exist because people keep voluntarily ticking racial boxes.
Despite LFN launching a lawful and practical declassification drive, only a handful of individuals have acted. This article confronts the uncomfortable truth: BBBEE survives not because of law, but because of compliance — and explains how South Africans can legally stop participating and bring the system to its knees.
Stop complying. Scrap races. Be African. Be free.
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When the Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) launched its national BBBEE declassification drive during October last year, we did so openly, lawfully, and with a clear call to action.
That initial article,
👉 “LFN Launches National BBBEE Declassification Drive: It’s Time to End Racial Boxes!” (dated 7 October 2025), set out the constitutional and legal basis for why South Africans are not required by law to classify themselves by race.
Yet despite overwhelming social media interest, commentary, and support — very few people actually took the step of completing and submitting the Racial Declassification Notice.
This article explains why that hesitation is misplaced, and why the opportunity is now clearer — and more powerful — than ever.
⚖️ Home Affairs Has Now Confirmed It — In Writing
With permission from one of our supporters, Ms Estelle Shering, LFN can now place on record a written response received directly from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on behalf of the Director-General following her submission of LFN’s Form 1 – Notification of Racial Declassification.
The Email:
From: Neo Moleko [mailto:Neo.Moleko@dha.gov.za] On Behalf Of HACC
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2025 3:28 PM
To: Estelle Shering
Subject: DF RE: RACIAL DECLASSIFICATION NOTICE – ESTELLE SHERING – 6xxxxxxxxxx081
Good day,
Thank you for your correspondence and the attached document.
Please note that the Department of Home Affairs does not record, store, or assign any racial classification on the National Population Register. Racial classification was removed from all identity numbers and population records after the abolition of apartheid, and as such, there is no race field linked to your ID number or any Home Affairs system.
Your identity number never contained racial classification, and no amendments can be made in this regard because race is not reflected on any official Home Affairs record.
In summary confirmation for your own purposes, we can confirm that:
- The Identity Number structure does not include or encode race; and
- The Department does not maintain racial categories in any official records.
Regards
N. Moleko
Home Affairs Contact Centre
Toll free no : 0800601190
If abroad/outside RSA : +27 12 338 8000
Email Address : hacc@dha.gov.za
In this response, Home Affairs confirmed unequivocally that:
- The Department does not record, store, or assign race on the National Population Register;
- Racial classification was removed from identity numbers and population records after the segregation regime;
- Identity numbers never contained racial information; and
- There is no race field linked to any Home Affairs system.
This confirmation alone settles the matter:
There is no legal racial classification in the Republic of South Africa.
🧠 What This Means (And Why It Matters)
If the very Department that manages identity in South Africa does not keep racial records, then:
- No employer,
- No bank,
- No tender authority,
- No university,
- No BBBEE verification agency,
has any lawful basis to demand racial classification from you.
Any race you declare on a job application, BBBEE form, or questionnaire is purely voluntary.
This is not an opinion.
It is now confirmed by Home Affairs itself.
🚨 The Uncomfortable Truth: BBBEE Survives Because People Keep Complying
This is where the real issue lies.
Despite complaining about BBBEE, racial discrimination, and exclusion, many South Africans — particularly those labelled “white” — continue to:
- Tick racial boxes;
- Declare themselves as “white”;
- Accept exclusion as inevitable; and
- Participate in the very system they claim to oppose.
Not because the law forces them to —
but because habit, fear, and social pressure do.
The exclusion of so-called “white” South Africans from economic opportunities is, in large part, self-inflicted through voluntary compliance.
🦏 LFN Did Not Invent This — We Proved It
LFN did not merely argue theory.
We provided a practical, lawful solution.
Thanks to Ms Shering, who invested a few minutes to complete and submit our template form, we now have written confirmation that:
We are all raceless in law — only human beings.
If Home Affairs does not classify you by race, no institution may lawfully require you to do so.
🔁 We Have Seen This Behaviour Before
This pattern is not new.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, LFN repeatedly provided lawful, simple ways to resist unconstitutional regulations.
Yet many continued to comply — not because the rules were claimed to be legal, but because non-compliance felt risky.
The same thing is happening now with BBBEE.
When presented with a lawful, simple way to neutralise an oppressive system, people hesitate — because the solution feels too easy.
But history teaches us something important:
Systems collapse when people stop participating.
The e-toll system did not fall because of one court case — it collapsed because mass compliance ended.
BBBEE is no different.
🚫 Stop Voluntary Compliance — It Is Not Mandatory
LFN calls on South Africans to understand this clearly:
- You are not legally required to classify yourself by race;
- You may lawfully refrain from answering race questions;
- You may lawfully identify only as African / human being (PS: Reference to being “African” is not a racial classification but refers to someone born/resident on the African continent – Any “white” person born/resident on the African continent may legally call themselves “African”);
- You may lawfully notify employers and third parties of your declassification; and
- You are protected by the Constitution when you do so.
If enough South Africans (especially “white” citizens) simply stop ticking racial boxes, BBBEE will collapse onto itself — administratively and legally.
Not through chaos.
Not through violence.
But through lawful non-compliance with a narrative not law.
📥 Take the Step Most People Haven’t
LFN has made all project documents freely available:
- 📘 LFN Position Paper (English & Afrikaans)
- 🧾 Form 1 – Notification to Department of Home Affairs of Racial Declassification (English & Afrikaans)
- 🧾 Form 2 – Notification to Employer / Third Party of Racial Declassification (Soon to be added)
👉 Access them here: Project: End Racial Classification, Discrimination and BBBEE (2025)
🗣️ LFN’s Closing Message
“The law does not classify you by race.
The State does not record your race.
BBBEE survives because you keep participating.
Stop complying.
Scrap races.
Be African. Be free.”
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