ANC refuses to endorse failed DA campaign
The ANC says it cannot be part of the DA's attempt to sanitise history in order to artificially manufacture a party political campaign for the upcoming elections.
This follows a walkout of the Western Cape legislature yesterday afternoon (6 June 2013) when deputy speaker Piet Pretorius demanded ANC MPL Max Ozinsky withdraw a remark (of 9 May 2013) about the old PFP MP Helen Suzman who supported arms procurement from Britain by the apartheid regime to be used against other citizens.
Ozinsky refused to withdraw the interjection that Suzman supported the arms transaction and therefore wanted people to be killed.
ANC Western Cape secretary Songezo Mjongile says: "The ANC is not part of the DA's lies with smoke and mirrors in order to come up with a spin doctored version of the DA's history. The ANC is not a sleeping dog of the DA, but a watchdog of democracy. We will not be bullied into blind praise singing of Suzman or anybody else.
"If the DA wants to make a mockery of our democracy by cleaning up the legislature record in order to salvage the DA's failed electioneering campaign, the ANC will not be part of that. The DA notion that Suzman was a saint has been destroyed by various historians and other commentators of note."