“For me it is despicable that a political party that claims to uphold the values of the constitution to have descended to that level of dividing the people of SA,” said Ramaphosa on Friday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the ANC 'would never try to divide the people of SA along racial lines'.Despicable. That is how ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa described the DA’s local government election campaign posters in Phoenix, which he said sought to cause racial divisions in the country.
SowetanLIVE's sister publication TimesLIVE reported on Thursday that the opposition party came under fire this week after it emerged the posters were viewed as racially insensitive. The opposition’s KZN chairperson Dean Macpherson apologised on Thursday, saying the party was in the process of removing the posters which “inadvertently caused offence”.
The ANC had sought to unite the nation at all times, he said, “even when we go through huge challenges because the issue of race is a fault line and we always try to close that fault line and appeal to the unity and work for the unity of our people”.
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