A good way to gauge how you’re doing is by watching how competitors treat you. And by that yardstick, young Mmusi Maimane’s hope-promoting Democratic Alliance is set for a huge Wednesday when South Africans vote in their municipal elections, As campaigns start wrapping up, leaders of both the ANC and the EFF yesterday resorted to crude racism, urging their supporters to turn their backs on the “white” DA. Ironically given the way his family inherited their land at Nkandla, Jacob Zuma personally insulted DA leader Mmusi Maimane, calling him a “scarecrow” which likens the 36 year old to millions of black people who “sided with whites during oppression.” Julius Malema was even more crass, saying a vote for the DA would be for people who think blacks are monkeys. On one level, disgusting racist comments like these shouldn’t really surprise us given the source. Zuma and Malema personify Africa’s scourge, the entrepreneurial politician, and seem prepared to do whatever it takes to keep the money gates open. On another, it shows a desperation which would surprise even the greatest optimist in the open-society, meritocracy promoting Official Opposition. The ruling party has fallen a long way from its heyday. Who could imagine Nelson Mandela resorting to such an idiotically base message? – Alec Hogg
By Carien du Plessis
Brits – DA leader Mmusi Maimane is a “scarecrow” and his party does not know if it is white or black, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
“The poor man (Maimane) hasn’t read the history of this country, and he is no different to the few black people who sided with whites during oppression,” he told a crowd of ANC T-shirts in a full Letlhabile Stadium, north of Brits, on Thursday afternoon.
The rally concluded his day of campaigning in the area.
Zuma called the DA “the most confused party for now”.
“They don’t know whether they are white or black. They don’t know what they are standing for.”
He racist utterances equating black people to monkeys were made by DA members. Zuma was referring to KwaZulu-Natal estate agent Penny Sparrow’s Facebook post in January.
“Maimane must accept he is a lost feather floating in the sky. During apartheid, people who behaved like him were known as scarecrows.”
Even though he spent half of his 35-minute speech talking about the opposition, Zuma said he didn’t want to waste time discussing the DA.
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“I just want you to know that the man has no politics. In any case, all like him in the past had no politics. They would make themselves loved by their new friends, their new bosses. I don’t want to spend time with this young fellow. He is a lost cause.”
Zuma belittled the Economic Freedom Fighters, to loud cheers from the crowd.
Without mentioning party leader Julius Malema by name, Zuma said “some young man, ill-disciplined” formed an “angry organisation”.
Zuma said the overalls and the cleaners’ uniforms the EFF wore in Parliament were symbols of slavery, and were not worn by workers “out of love”.
Jacob Zuma doesn't believe that black people can lead white people, and that we can work together. His mind is oppressed. #TrollipForMayor
— Mmusi Maimane (@MmusiMaimane) July 24, 2016
Zuma was expected to campaign on his home turf of Nkandla on Friday. He would attend a gala dinner in the Free State in the evening. – News24
Source: http://www.news24.com/Elections/News/maimane-a-lost-feather-and-scarecrow-zuma-20160728
‘Blacks must not vote DA’ – Malema
By Karabo Ngoepe
Pretoria – Blacks must not vote for the DA so the country does not fall into the hands of whites, EFF leader Julius Malema said on Thursday.
“Please don’t vote for DA. The pain you are currently feeling is very little compared to what you will endure if the whites are in charge,” Malema told residents of Kanana in Hammanskraal.
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“In the eyes of the whites, we are bobbejaans [baboons].”
Malema said DA leader Mmusi Maimane joined the party solely for financial reasons. Maimane was merely a front and others were in control of the party, he claimed.
“Mmusi Maimane is not a leader of the DA. He is just after money,” he said.
Malema spent his day campaigning in townships in Tshwane. He told voters to think about their futures ahead of the August 3 local government elections. – News24
Source: http://www.news24.com/Elections/News/blacks-must-not-vote-da-malema-20160728
