The photo used in the DA’s televised election advert was misleading, police said.

“In fact, the advertisement’s footage is inaccurate and misleading as the two people shown in the image were never killed or shot at and no live ammunition was used,” SA Police Service spokesperson Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale said yesterday.

The SA Police Service welcomed the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa) ruling late yesterday that its complaint about the DA’s advert was valid. Icasa ordered the DA to remove the offending part from the advert.

The televised advert shows the DA’s Gauteng premier candidate Mmusi Maimane standing in front of a mirror, talking about the current state of the country. At one point he states that “the police are killing our people”. This is accompanied by a photo of a police officer firing rubber bullets at close range at two unarmed people.
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