DA in bid to have BLF excluded from 2019 elections
Opposition party opposes Black First Land First participation in polls on the grounds that its mission is to divide SA along racial lines
The DA is lobbying to prevent Black First Land First (BLF) from contesting the 2019 general elections. It has launched a petition against the party’s participation in the polls on the grounds that it has “shown itself to be a cabal of unrepentant racists whose mission is to divide South Africans along racial lines and to undermine the constitutional value which states: ‘SA belongs to all who live in it’,” DA youth leader Luyolo Mphithi said on Sunday. The move follows the Twitter support BLF spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp gave to a comment by a Facebook user, who said he could not feel pain for the three pupils of Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark who died when a bridge collapsed on Friday, assuming them to be white. In a tweet that has since been deleted Maasdorp reportedly said: “Why should we frown on the ancestors’ petitions to punish the land thieves, including their offspring.” Maasdorp’s tweet unleashed a storm of outrage on social media and condemnation from the Ahmed Kath...
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