No one condemned those potently racist comments, including the DA's parliamentary leader, Ms Lindiwe Mazibuko. [Interjections.] Ms Mazibuko's courage to stand up for her own people failed her at a crucial moment. [Interjections.] We all shudder to think what the DA's future will be in the hands of hon Mazibuko. [Interjections.] This insult directed at all black people of this province must be rejected with the contempt it deserves ... [Applause.] ... and it must haunt Madame Zille until she takes it back and apologises unreservedly to all our people.
The delivery of services in the Western Cape is also done in a very skewed and racial manner. Those people who live in townships and squatter areas are given inferior, substandard service. In Grabouw we witnessed an ugly fight, with racial undertones, between two communities, where one community was given a good school, while the other was given an inappropriate and inadequate structure. [Interjections.] Instead of addressing ...