Food 'joke' sparks latest race row in Cape Town DA

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The DA in the City of Cape Town is embroiled in a racial storm after its deputy chief whip Errol Anstey allegedly made racist remarks to fellow party councillor Thandeka Gqada during a caucus session lunch break.

Gqada said Anstey responded when she confronted him by saying his remarks were meant to be “a joke”.

Gqada, who is a former MP and former mayoral committee member in the City of Cape Town, now feels she no longer belongs in the DA's caucus. “I feel indeed that I do not belong here. What I am going through at the moment, I wish none of my colleagues can go through this because it is not a nice feeling,” she said.Errol is a senior councillor, the deputy chief whip.

“I said to him, I did not like what you said outside. His response was, what's the issue, because you are here now getting your food. He said he was just joking,” said Gqada.Gqada said Anstey stuck to his guns that he was joking and had shown “his arrogance and defensiveness” in the presence of three other councillors.

 

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DA is too white, some of our brothers and sisters are used then throughout of the window, is lesson learned to others.

Oh dear such weak reporting....as usual..really is this the best you have

Nazo another one when will this people learn that the DA main existence is to protect white privileges that were acquired at the expense of black people during the rule of the apartheid government

Black people don't learn Our_DA is for white people. They are existing as majority opposition party with black votes, that is All they want from people person (to put them is Power ) mphophalatse1

But There’s no story here, this what the DA is all about. It’s been and continues to be a racist party

Desperate journalism Times..all you got

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