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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I still wonder how can an African join DA just check all African graduates are resigning in droves as matricless Europeans are purging them, please leave to retain your dignity

You have joined this Party voluntarily, all the National Party thugs who killed Black people hide behind the name DA,all the Black people living this Party complained about racism.When u joined this Party were thinking you will change things in the DA? Never,a leopard never chang

What's new we all know that they are all experiments

Ja neh 😂😂😂

Thus DA, it's a racist party Our_DA

Thus DA, it is a racist party

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