THE DA in North West reacted with shock to a disparaging Facebook post by EFF member of the provincial legislature, Thabo Sehloho that was couched in racial undertones.
Sehloho posted a picture of the Rand Stadium where DA launched its elections manifesto with the remark: “Oh (blue) sheet! Someone forgot to provide transport and papsak for all the DA coloureds in the Western Cape?”
The post was taken down after The New Age made inquiries on what Sehloho really meant.
DA’s provincial spokesperson on health and education Dr Tutu Faleni said the statement was absurd.
“It is a desperate effort by the EFF to discredit what was a successful manifesto launch by the DA. From the onset the DA announced a target audience of 20 000 for the manifesto launch.
“The target figure was based on financial constraints other than filling up the relatively small Rand Stadium with the entire membership of the DA. We have excess of four million members (according to stats from the 2014 national elections) and we continue to grow daily,” he said.
Faleni added that the EFF should better focus on winning their first ward in the August 3 polls.
“The EFF is still to show the people of South Africa if it has what it takes to lead a ward, not to mention a municipality or even a province. Recent research shows that nine out of ten best municipalities are governed by the DA and we cannot be undermined by a party that is yet to win a ward in the local government elections,” he said.
In his defence, Sehloho denied ever posting any statement on his wall before claiming that his account had been hacked.
“I think my account was hacked. I cannot recall me writing that statement. The statement is rhetoric and as a politician I cannot make such statement,” he said.
Sehloho later tried to ‘sweet-talk’ The New Age into dropping the story claiming that he had more juicy stuff that the newspaper can write on.
Courtesy: The NewAge Newspaper
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