Hon Madam Chair, it seems like the ANC is one man race-raking bull is at it again. MEC Panyaza Lesufi's recent comments are another attempt to drive the racial wedge amongst South Africans. On 27 October 2019, Mr Lesufi took to social media to highlight his disgust at the alleged public display of the old South African flag at the Rugby World Cup match being played between South Africa versus Wales.
However it was later discovered that the Springbok fan at the centre of Mr Lesufi's attack was in fact holding the new South African flag. Go, figure! Therefore, I would offer the House to take note of the following: This is
not the first time that Mr Lesufi has sort to divide our country along racial lines. On 24 June 2019 he visited the Centurion Based Crche where he falsely bemoaned the fact that children and staff were segregated on the basis of race and on 24 September 2019, he labelled the creation of the private Afrikaans University by the trade union Solidarity as a race-based institution.
It is true that Mr Lesufi is a serial race batter who seeks to divide South Africans on the basis of race. Therefore the DA calls on the ANC to stage the intervention with Mr Lesufi so that he may be made acutely aware of the fact that his behaviour has no place in a nonracial and prosperous South Africa.