White supremacy & arrogance at the core of DA's appropriation of Madiba
26 July 2016
The African National Congress (ANC) views the continued attempts by the DA to appropriate the persona of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe late ANC President Comrade Nelson Mandela as cheap politicking bordering on desperation. It is a glaring sign that the DA’s attempts to woo the black electorate are floundering and they will stop at nothing to “blackwash’ their chequered history as a whites-only party by thrusting a few token blacks into positions of leadership and appropriating even symbols that have always shunned them.
Comrade Nelson Mandela himself said as much, telling a COSATU rally in December 2000 that the DA was a party of ‘white bosses and black stooges’. He said, “no matter how they cover up by getting a few black stooges, they (the whites) remain the bosses. They remain a white party.”
Throughout this election campaign the DA has offended the memory and integrity of Comrade Madiba, using him and his legacy callously for their narrow political gains. In a manner typical of the white supremacist party that the DA is, they are dismissive and irreverent of the feelings of Madiba’s family and even his own words in the latter years of his life that: “I will join the nearest branch of the ANC in heaven. If I do not find one, I will launch my own ANC branch.”
Because Madiba was black, the white supremacy at the core of the DA holds no regard for his words, his wishes and the historical record that lays bare Madiba’s unwavering commitment to the ANC. The DA displays a shocking form of arrogance and presumptuousness in claiming that Nelson Mandela would endorse its organization, were he still alive.