A slight majority of readers who voted in our poll believe the DA should not remove the posters in Phoenix.
The DA has landed in hot water over its election posters put up in Phoenix, where 36 people died during unrest.Readers have weighed in on whether the DA should remove its controversial election posters in Phoenix, Durban, after it was accused of further inciting racial divisions in the community.
DA provincial leader Francois Rogers did not sign off on the posters, and apparently only found out about them with the rest of SA. DA mayoral candidate in Johannesburg Mpho Phalatse also called for the party to take down the posters. “Lives were lost in Phoenix, innocent people died and we did not look at that when we put up those posters. As an individual, I do believe we should acknowledge that it was a blind spot. Yes we did not intend to offend, because we would never defend lawlessness and murders and that is not what the posters are saying, but that is what people are reading.
“And because of the offence that has been caused, I would push for the party to apologise, take the posters down, come up with a catchy campaign message and we all move on in the interest of building the nation,” Phalatse told
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