ANC ADDS THE RACE CARD TO ITS INVENTORY

Two DA billboards were recently unveiled in the centre of Johannesburg tellingly critical of President Zuma and the ANC. One billboard features a "live ticker" that specifies there are 1,842,852 presently unemployed South Africans, increasing by one every 112 seconds. The smiling face of Zuma is prominently depicted on the billboard. The second billboard reads "Vote DA for change that creates jobs". ANC's spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa, reacted by stating that the message "expresses the character of a racist party". He further added that in the DA's "narrow view, unemployment in this country is caused by a black government". Kodwa's spurious reaction to the DA's message immediately brings to mind the biblical verse in John 8:45: "Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!" There is nothing in the DA's message that remotely suggests a scintilla of racism. The DA is simply and factually calling attention to real time presently unemployed South Africans under Zuma's ANC government. The fact that the cause for joblessness is a government in power that happens to be black is immaterial. Nothing more, nothing less. The ANC's decision to play the race card is symptomatic of a party scraping the bottom of the barrel, and in doing so, refusing to come to terms with harsh reality - a reality that is drowning the country in social upheaval and economic decline. The ANC government has yet to take responsibility for its actions. It has persisted in scapegoating its failures by blaming apartheid, and has now added the race card to its inventory. The strategy is simply a pretext and subterfuge for failed governance.