ELECTIONS 2019 ANALYSIS: Ace, Race, Money: Magashule takes the ANC’s internal battle into unexplored territory By Stephen Grootes StephenGrootes
. After that he moves to the woman who lives in the house and gives her R400 in cash, leading to her very grateful response.speaking from the back of a van through a microphone. He then makes a comment which has been translated as, “Don’t waste your vote on the white man again.” He refers to the DA as “umlungu”, a term used to refer to white people.
And one wonders what the reaction would have been if the person handing out the cash had been Julius Malema or Mmusi Maimane? What would the ANC have said? The ANC leader in question was Julius Malema, at the time as leader of the ANC Youth League. He made the comment right in front of then President and ANC leader Jacob Zuma. He was not disciplined, in fact, it could be argued that he did what Zuma and others would have wanted him to do, to make race part of the campaign.
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