Deputy President Paul Mashatile's visit to Khayelitsha for the ANC's 113th anniversary celebrations was disrupted by a security incident involving a resident who was forcibly removed from a home where Mashatile was holding an impromptu interview.
A visit to Khayelitsha by Deputy President Paul Mashatile did not go according to plan on Tuesday morning. The deputy president’s security team was involved in a minor altercation with a resident who entered a home while an impromptu interview was being conducted. Mashatile was in the Cape Town suburb on Tuesday as part of an engagement drive ahead of the African National Congress’ ( ANC ) 113th-anniversary celebrations this week.
Several media houses were part of the touring party, reporting from a house in Khayelitsha, where Mashatile was sitting in a family’s lounge. A man believed to be the son of the woman that Mashatile was speaking to entered the home, prompting security guards to react.‘We’ve never paid for people from outside hosting provinces to attend rallies’ – Mbalula on ANC birthday venueHolding an infant, the man was bundled out of the house while protesting his right to be in his own home.The security detail of Deputy Prez Mashatile have struck again.Imagine the trauma of the toddler whose parent is being pushed around by emotional strangers in the living room of own home☹️This is the first time the party has held its annual celebration in Cape Town since the Democratic Alliance flipped the Western Cape in 2009. Upon arriving in the cape, the deputy president accused the Democratic Alliance of neglecting the city’s poor, hence their decision to bring the annual birthday rally to Khayelitsha. “We want to make sure that the people of Khayelitsha, like others in the Western Cape, do get a better life, because we know that the‘We’ve never paid for people from outside hosting provinces to attend rallies’ – Mbalula on ANC birthday venu
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