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“The DA is no friend of the Afrikaner,” says Mr. Jaco Mulder, MPL and leader of the Freedom Front Plus in Gauteng.

This follows after the DA city council in Midvaal on Wednesday removed the statue of Dr. Verwoerd which had stood in front of the civic centre. The FF Plus condemns the step due to the fact that Dr. Verwoerd had a historic tie to Meyerton (in Midvaal) and this step of the DA boils down to their contempt for a part of the town’s cultural legacy.

Mulder said that any political party who has contempt for the history of a cultural group does not deserve a place in a diverse political landscape such as that of South Africa.

South Africa could seek information from quite a number of European countries where cultural legacies are preserved as part of community’s history.

The chairperson and the mayoral candidate of the FF Plus in Midvaal, Mr. Corrie Pyper, said during the removal at the site where the statue stood that there is no place for the Afrikaner or its culture in the DA and that the DA’s action calculatingly took place at night two weeks before the local authority election to garner political favour with black voters in Midvaal.

The DA will have to explain this step to the mainly Afrikaner community of Midvaal with who’s mandate it is governing the council. It is the result of a liberal and identityless society of individuals which the DA is striving for.