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SA: Democratic Alliance Suspends MP, Renaldo Gouws, For Using Racist Language

9 months agoThu, 20 Jun 2024 09:34:28 GMT

SA: Democratic Alliance Suspends MP, Renaldo Gouws, For Using Racist Language

South African white-dominated political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has suspended controversial MP Renaldo Gouws for his racist rant, pending a disciplinary hearing.

This comes hardly a day after the party’s leader John Steenhuisen on Wednesday, 19 June defended Gouws, saying he made the comments 16 years ago when he was young and irresponsible.

In a statement issued this Thursday, 20 June, the DA said Gouws had been suspended with immediate effect and now faces disciplinary charges before the Party’s Federal Legal Commission. It said:

The DA has established that the video, in which Renaldo Gouws uses execrable language, is in fact genuine and not a fake as initially suspected.
The DA Federal Executive has therefore suspended Mr Gouws with immediate effect while he faces disciplinary charges before the Party’s Federal Legal Commission.
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In a video clip, which was deleted but archived in 2012, a man who looks like a young Gouws can be heard using the K-word and N-word several times.

Gouws has been an MP since 15 June 2024.

Commenting on the latest development, Melusi Sime said Gouws “is the embodiment of the values of” the DA. He wrote on X:

They saving face… Mr Gouws is the embodiment of the values of that political party. It might be easy to ‘white’ wash who they are through the lopsided narrative of ‘good governance’ where they govern, but many people know who they are and whose interests they serve.

The DA is now part of South Africa’s coalition government which includes five other parties, that is, African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), GOOD Party, Patriotic Alliance (PA), and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).

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28 Comments

Hwesa · 9 months ago

If I may ask, why SA gvt allowed DA white president to register? What's the problem now?

chapwititi · 9 months ago

mu parliament yeku South Africa mune vanhu nevarungu.munhu haasi murungu,murungu haasi munhu asi vose varimo mu parli.ndofunga handina kuva nerusarura.

@Tkt · 9 months ago

K for kapeche ,N for nyo...

Tkt · 9 months ago

😂😂😂 haa iwewe so, 🙌

African Observer · 9 months ago

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Africa for Africans. ukaona usina mutupo kukubvunza kut unoyerei woti maziso boi boi it simply means you don't belong here in Zimbabwe. the same as South Africa that country is for black South Africans not those Boer colonialists who were the architects of apartheid!!!! Ramaphosa akaudzwa live and direct kunzi iwewe iwewe watengesa nyika kumabhunu iwewe iwewe zvno mira uone isu tinenge tichingoti pasi nevatengesi!

Tkt · 9 months ago

Please somebody lecture me, What is the K-word and an N-word? What are those words please somebody lecture me there! 🙏

D.A · 9 months ago

Kaffir and Nigger

Tkt · 9 months ago

Thanks my Guy

Tkt · 9 months ago

@D.A thanks my guy

patz · 9 months ago

Ka statement kekuti " Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans alone" kari meaningless and racists. All foreigners doing business in Zim Zimbabwe is for them as well. Zimbabweans include white Zimbabwean citizens. Zanu pf should learn from ANC not to be racist. Africans in USA and UK are enjoying their stay there and some have obtained citizenship coz those countries take a hard stance against individuals who pratice racism. The world has become a global village such any person, black or white, can stay anywhere anytime. Racism is not the people but phase and in South Africa racism has been overtaken by time

Anonymous · 9 months ago

@patz Tribalism and Racism are a badge of HONOUR among the Shona people. That is why they necklace them as Makwerekwere in South Africa. They are full of Hate, that was imbued in them from birth by ZANU PF!

KG · 9 months ago

THE TRUTH IS THE DA IS A RACIST PARTY, PERIOD. ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW WATER AND OIL IS GOING TO MIX. THE PARTY BELONGS TO THE AFRIKAANS OR BOERS, SOME OF THE WORLD'S WORST RACISTS. THEY ONLY CHANGED THE NAME FROM THE NATIONAL PARTY TO THE SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE TO WOODWINK UNSUSPECTING ILLETERATE BLACKS. THAT MARRIAGE OF CONVINIENCE BETWEEN THE ANC AND DA MIGHT BE VERY COSTLY, POLITICALLY. EFF AND MK THE PRODUCTS OF SQUABBLES WITHIN THE ANC WILL DEFINITELY GROW RAPIDLY BECAUSE THEY STAND FOR THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES THE ANC HAS ABONDONED. THEY WILL RECLAIM BLACK U

❌ · 9 months ago

Iwe Zuma just wants to protect himself from going to hsil

patz · 9 months ago

What is racism. Racism is not a white complextion but a practice which can be done by a black or white person. Racism is practised and those who practice it are the once called racists. Is there racism in S.A.

F · 9 months ago

2012 video😳 why disciplining him after 12 years. Just thinking hangu

❌ · 9 months ago

Aikaka, vaamuOffice. Now they are under scrutiny because they are in government. Probably this was unearthed during security check for suitability to hold public office. Can you imagine the scandal if he was appointed Minister and then this video became public? It would be an embarrassment to both government and DA

Mukoma Oncemore · 9 months ago

It's a mixture of WATER and oil. We once had whites in our parliament but they naturally vanished

❌ · 9 months ago

Tina Coventry muCabinet you twit

mimi · 9 months ago

Coventry is just a placeholder, nothing more nothing serious

❌ · 9 months ago

Ohh, as well as a Greek as Deputy Minister

mimi · 9 months ago

even in soccer

Anonymous · 9 months ago

@Mukomaoncemore Whites in Zim politics did not NATURALLY vanish. ZANU made white participation in the politics of their country impossible by preaching racist propaganda and hate against them non stop until they went quiet. All the laws of the country could not protect them. The same continues against Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart. He can never say anything without being labeled Rhodie and Sellouts Scout etc. The only whites who survive on Zim politics are those who don't criticise ZANU. That is why most of them have resorted to simply making money through falsely praising ZANU. They no longer care.

Chicken 🐓 · 9 months ago

it's difficult for a dove to abandon it's coo. A lot of transformations and behavior change should take place, where noone should be an enemy to anyone. In Zimbabwe, we need to see ourselves as Zim citizens not creating a divide by affiliation to a party. tribe or region and religion.

❌ · 9 months ago

Kaffirs and Niggers like cheZANU, Khan, and their ilk need to have their lives snuffed

Yoyoyo · 9 months ago

😁😁Zvatotanga

Chicken 🐓 · 9 months ago

it's difficult for a dove to abandon it's coo. A lot of transformations and behavior change should take place where noone should be an enemy to anyone. In Zimbabwe, we need to ourselves as Zim citizens not creating a divide by affiliation to a party. tribe or region and religion.

2Pac · 9 months ago

My Nigger