McKenzie Hits Back at Mbeki Over Xenophobic Comments

By Alicia Mmashakana

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has hit back at former president Thabo Mbeki on his warning over identity politics and xenophobia that he said the nation must guard against.

Mbeki in a newsletter published this week warned that politicians like McKenzie could potentially lead the country to an unstable society with xenophobic Afrophobia rhetoric.

But McKenzie remained unfazed, saying if standing with South Africans who are disenfranchised by illegal immigrants made him anti-revolutionary, then he was proud to be one.

Mbeki used the recent riots in the UK which were sparked by an incorrect story about a teenaged boy who according to social media was asylum seeker who had murder three girls in that country.
It later emerged that the murderer of the girls was a 17-year-old boy whose parents had legally immigrated from Rwanda.

The death of three children at Stockport in England set