Steenhuisen slammed for labelling AmaPanyaza as drunkards

January 29, 2024 145

DA leader, John Steenhuisen, has come under fire over his utterances degrading the Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens.

In a swipe at Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi, Steenhuisen over the weekend the wardens, established to fight crime in Gauteng, as Panyaza’s untrained vigilantes.

“What kind of person pulls a drunkard out of a shebeen, gives him a uniform and a weapon, and then unleashes them onto a community?”

He alleges that Lesufi used taxpayers’ money to buy ill-fitting PEP stores uniforms for the wardens.

Unlike Lesufi’s untrained vigilantes, the DA-run Western Cape has trained over 1,200 highly-skilled LEAP officers who have helped to reduce murder by up to 40% in some of the most dangerous neighbourhoods. This is the DA difference. pic.twitter.com/fD3OruJU4F

— John Steenhuisen MP (@jsteenhuisen) January 27, 2024

Steenhuisen made the remarks at a crime awareness rally he led outside the Soshanguve Police Station.

In December, the Justice department conferred the wardens with peace officer powers. They assume the same legal status as Gauteng provincial traffic officers.

The men and women in green were appointed in July last year in a bid to assist in combating crime in the province.

Political analyst, Levy Ndou, says Steenhuisen’s comments compromise the DA brand as they create the impression that he does not see the value in ensuring the safety of Gauteng citizens.

“He doesn’t appreciate the job creation initiatives that are being made by the premier and his government.”

Dismissing claims by some South Africans that Steenhuisen was being racist, Ndou says the DA leader’s actions were distasteful, especially ahead of a crucial election in the coming months.

This has proven enough @helenzille assumptions about John Steenhuisen kind of leadership and disrespecting other black people, more so those who are members and supporters of DA. pic.twitter.com/ToQGDEBQq6

— Bond (@_007Sihle) January 29, 2024

John Steenhuisen is the worst thing to happen to the DA.

— Simphiwe Silwana (@simsilwana) January 29, 2024

John Steenhuisen has a valid point. ANC shooting from the hip. No background check,nothing. Lepoofi created a Robert Mugabe thugs to help citizens tow the party line.

— AfricanViking (@AficanViking) January 29, 2024

If it looks like a pig, smells like a pig, acts like a pig, then it is a pig.

What John Steenhuisen said was classist and racist.

No amount of sanitizing it will make it any different

— Marc F Katsaura (@CdeMarcKatsaura) January 29, 2024

And there are black people shopping @PEPstores_SA who has never set a foot in a shebeen and definitely not drunkards but will vote for this racist party of John Steenhuisen

He can’t hide it anymore .. he is a proud walking racist and rubbing it to the black DA voters #VoetsekDA https://t.co/sKZ3wZ43jJ

— Tebza_FS🇿🇦🇵🇸 (@FsTebza) January 28, 2024

Written by: Lindiwe Mpanza

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