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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>DA leader John Steenhuisen is no stranger to controversy and his latest remarks have riled Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi, who accused him of using \u201cswart gevaar\u201d tactics in the DA’s campaign against new political parties that are not part of the Multiparty Charter.<\/p>\n

Zibi lashed out at the Western Cape governing party, saying it was \u201carrogant\u201d and its attitude was off-putting for most South Africans.Zibi made these remarks during an address at the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday just days after Steenhuisen referred to \u201cpolitical mercenaries\u201d in small parties like Rise Mzansi, Patriotic Alliance, Good and the National Coloured Congress, whom he said were trying to break the DA-led province despite its good governance record.<\/p>\n

Addressing the DA\u2019s launch of the provincial manifesto in Paarl at the weekend, Steenhuisen asked: \u201cWhy are these parties obsessed with targeting this province \u2014 the only province that works, where the 1,200 law enforcement officers deployed under the ground-breaking LEAP programme have already made 27,000 arrests?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you why: because the DA-led Western Cape is the last province with anything left to loot. That\u2019s what this is all about,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll never see these political mercenaries in small parties campaigning in ANC provinces like Limpopo or North West. Why? Because they know the ANC has already stolen everything there is to steal in those provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest of the country is bankrupt, so the last place left to loot is the Western Cape.\u201d<\/p>\n

These remarks prompted Zibi to say: \u201cI stand before you as a freshly minted black radical who wants to take away property rights. Me, former editor of Business Day, senior official in a commercial bank, and an investment bank, and a mining company and a car manufacturing company. Me, but that\u2019s the South Africa in which we live. We don\u2019t know each other, sometimes we refuse to know each other or we decline the opportunity to know each other or understand one another\u2019s experiences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. DA leader John Steenhuisen is no stranger to controversy and his latest remarks have riled Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi, who accused him of using \u201cswart gevaar\u201d tactics in the DA’s campaign against new political parties that are not part of the Multiparty Charter. 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