Inside Politics Reporter
It seems the outspoken ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe is being censured for his tribalism waffle, during a media briefing with journalists at the IEC’s Results Operating Centre in Midrand on Thursday.
Mantashe, responding to questions on the performance of the MK party, implied that the party’s big support in KwaZulu-Natal was not about politics but was Zulu people voting along tribal lines.
“If the impact is in KZN then it reflects something different. It reflects Zulu tribalism. And I don’t think we should actually lock ourselves into Zulu tribalism. Tribalism is a backward form of politics; it has had its time frame and it lapsed,” Mantashe charged.
Mantashe’s jibe angered some Zulu-speaking people including former ANC member Makhosi Khoza who took to social media to air her displeasure accusing him of disrespecting the Zulu people.
“It actually infuriates me that this insult by Gwede Mantashe of thinking
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