Burning of the flag suggests a lack of allegiance to SA
THE burning of the flag by the DA in its latest election ad campaign is divisive, ill-advised and reflective of a party that does not claim its allegiance to the very same country it claims it wants to protect from the ANC, EFF and the MK Party.
Why does the DA burn the country’s national symbol if its fight is with the ANC, EFF and the MKP? Why not burn the flags of these three parties?
We know South Africa is governed by the Constitution, which allows certain freedoms, including freedom of expression, which many can argue the DA is exercising through the ad and the burning of the flag.
We also know this act of desecrating the flag is allowed in the Constitution and carries with it no punishment.
However, any self-respecting political party would refrain from such dramatic ways of capturing the hearts and minds of the voters.
But the DA would not know the difference. It has made its job to make this country and its people a mockery. What would we expect from a party that described hooligans who killed more than 30 people in Phoenix “our heroes”.
The DA continues to show us they do not care about the black majority in this country who continue to live in sub-human conditions in the Western Cape where the party governs.
It continues to overlook white corruption and sees anything and everything involving black people as being corrupt. The DA has said nothing about the corruption of white people, including one Markus Jooste who, when he was supposed to account for his crimes, decided to kill himself.
We are yet to attend his funeral, more than two months after his alleged suicide, yet the DA has not said anything to condemn this criminal or any other white supremacist who thinks they deserve to have their own separatist enclave in the Western Cape, where they plan to have a whites only country within a country.
No amount of denial by John Steenhuisen and his sympathisers will make it okay for the burning of the national symbol. In other countries, this kind of behaviour is frowned upon and carries serious punitive measures.