{"id":965408,"date":"2024-07-12T07:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965408"},"modified":"2024-07-12T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:06:25","slug":"zilles-kzn-will-not-be-thrown-to-dogs-comment-has-mk-party-fuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/zilles-kzn-will-not-be-thrown-to-dogs-comment-has-mk-party-fuming\/","title":{"rendered":"Zille&#8217;s &#8216;KZN will not be thrown to dogs&#8217; comment has MK Party fuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party in Durban has described the remarks by Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille, in which she said &#8220;KZN will not be thrown to dogs,&#8221; as hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>The MK Party says it is planning a march and legal action against Zille over the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>However, Zille maintains that her statement was misconstrued and meant to convey concerns about the potential consequences if MK and EFF were to gain power in the province.<\/p>\n<p>MK Party Organiser in Durban, Michael Bongani Cele says Zille&#8217;s comments about KwaZulu-Natal being &#8220;thrown to the dogs&#8221; are derogatory and targeted at MK and EFF members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The speech that was made by Helen Zille, we feel is a hate speech and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s sitting on the desk of our legal team to look at it. She mentioned EFF and MK and said they won&#8217;t allow KZN people to be ruled by dogs, we think it is hate speech. As a citizen of SA, being black called by a person we respect in politics, calling other people dogs it unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Full interview below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"MK Party plans to march &amp; legal action against Helen Zille\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/mk-party-plans-to-march-legal-action-against-helen\/embed?style=Cover\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MK Party says it is planning a march and legal action against Zille over the remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":965409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,45],"tags":[974],"class_list":["post-965408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-politics","tag-mk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}