ANC veterans have spoken out on the “outrageous utterances” of Ace Magashule, ANC secretary general, in Philippi in the Western Cape on Saturday, “inciting ANC supporters to exercise their vote in a racist way”, calling it completely unacceptable.
In an address captured by eNCA, Magashule refers to the DA as “umlungu” (white people) and urges potential voters not to vote for the opposition party based on the fact that it is a “white party”.
“Don’t waste your vote on the white man again,” Magashule is reported as saying.
“As far as we are concerned, these are the utterances of an individual and not, by any measure, the position of the ANC. We are proud members of the ANC, a nonracial and nonsexist and democratic liberation movement,” the ANC veterans said in a statement on Sunday.
“Our Constitution behoves us ‘to unite all the people of South Africa, Africans in particular,
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