DA refers Masina to Ekurhuleni Ethics and Integrity Committee
11 April 2017
The DA strongly condemns Ekurhuleni Mayor, Mzwandile Masina’s unconstitutional and undemocratic threats at the Chris Hani Memorial Lecture yesterday, directed at the growing mass action against Jacob Zuma. Masina’s threats violate the law and the constitution, which guarantees the rights to peaceful protest.
Mayor Masina used the most reprehensible terms to describe how he believes opposition to Zuma should be dealt with: it should be “crushed”, and reprisal would be “very, very rough”.
This is the talk of a military strongman, not of a democratic mayor. Such talk has no place, whatsoever, in our constitutional democracy, if Masina respects the constitution at all. Masina clearly cannot see how the ever-growing groundswell of opposition to Jacob Zuma is building momentum every day.
The DA has today referred Mayor Masina to the Ekurhuleni Ethics and Integrity Committee, for this “war talk” and called for these threats to be investigated, and for sanctions to be imposed. He used a platform yesterday at the Chris Hani Memorial Lecture, and an Ekurhuleni-branded event, to make these threats and as such he must be investigated in his official capacity.