The DA has come under heavy criticism for writing to several Western powers including the US government asking for intervention ahead of the May 29 elections citing possible unrest it said may be caused by the involvement of uMkhonto weSizwe party.
Without providing any evidence, the official opposition which pundits predict will shed more votes having already recorded a decline in electoral support in the past elections ( 2019 general elections and 2021 local government elections), wrote to various governments alleging that the Jacob Zuma led MK party’s participation in the elections posed a threat to democracy and asked that the super-powers deploy resources to bankroll deployment of extra “observers”.
The DA has never filed a single complaint against the MK but is adamant the newly formed party’s “militancy” is a threat to democracy.
Even the ANC, which is engaged in a legal battle with MK over alleged identity theft, rejected the DA’s claim of possible violence during or after the elections and called out the official opposition for instigating external interference in South Africa’s internal affairs.
“Going around asking countries to intervene in South Africa, there’s no crisis of democracy in South Africa. What they’re doing the DA they’re perpetuating what we call a regime change agenda. We are going to elections, elections are contested and they too are on the roll,” said ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula also suggesting the DA was behind the so-called Cape independence, a campaign instigating for cessation of the Western Cape from South Africa which has failed to garner support from communities.
“What they’re promoting basically is to sneak out of the country and gossip about their own country negatively, South Africa doesn’t need that,” said Mbalula also citing the visit by the DA leadership to the US where it asked for protection against white farmers citing a genocide against them.
Mbalula called on state institutions to act against any violations including the involvement of South Africans in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
“Those who are training and who are on a service call in Israel, the state must intervene and deal with those individuals coming from our country and fighting a war elsewhere,” he said.
Both President Cyril Ramaphosa and International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor have also slammed the DA’s latest move.