Dividing SA on race is all the ANC has left – Zille
Cape Town – Western Cape Premier Helen Zille said on Thursday the ANC had performed so poorly that all it had left ahead of elections was to divide people along racial lines.
"Their record is bad and the only thing they have left, Madam Speaker, is to divide South Africa on the basis of race," Zille said in reply to the debate on her lengthy State of the Province Address of 19 February.
"And the more people see through this, the louder they shout. They have no credibility left on this particular issue," the former leader of the Democratic Alliance said, almost shouting above ANC's heckling from across the floor.
Zille said the leader of the opposition in the legislature, Khaya Magaxa, had picked on her pride over the high take out rate of books in the province's "excellent" libraries and had called this an example of the DA's racism.
In his reply to her address earlier this week, Magaxa said Zille and the DA found this exciting because they were surprised that black people could read and love books.