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Despicable ANC Hate Campaign Exposed in Trollip Case

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Dear MyPE

The DA and the Eastern Cape, in particular, welcomes the vindication of former Provincial Leader and the party’s Federal Chairperson, Cllr Athol Trollip, in the Grahamstown High Court.

In 2015 the failing and desperate ANC coordinated a hateful smear campaign against Cllr Trollip alleging gross human rights violations and that he had abused staff on his family farm.

At the time that these allegations were made, they were dismissed with contempt and proof was provided by Cllr Trollip that exposed the failing ANC’s lies. Unfortunately, the media fell prey to the sensational allegations and the desperate ANC’s hate campaign and reported extensively on the matter. Interestingly the Human Rights Commision declined to investigate the allegations and issued an apology to Athol Trollip for making incorrect public statements in this regard.

These allegations have now finally been exposed as nothing more than hateful and racially divisive ANC dirty tricks.

After three long years the disgraced ANC’s “Trojan horse” and former DA member, Knight Mali, failed to defend or prove his defamatory allegations against Cllr Trollip. Earlier this year the Grahamstown High Court ordered Mali’s accomplice and former ANC Councillor, Lawrence Troon, to apologize unconditionally to Cllr Trollip as the judge dismissed the allegations.

Both Mali and Troon were ultimately abandoned quite predictably by the ANC and left without legal or financial support as they had served their purpose and were no longer useful in the failing ANC’s campaign of hate and division.

ANC Councillor, Rory Riordan and former MEC for social development, Nancy Sihlwayi, who supported Mali and Troon’s malicious campaign were nowhere to be seen in the High Court yesterday.

The outcome of these cases serves as a stern warning to all of us that the failing ANC will stop at nothing to divide our country along racial lines by spreading lies about political opponents.

These cases should also serve as a salutary caution to those who seek to malign and defame others that they do so at their peril in the absence of factual evidence.

The cases have also exposed the failing ANC’s strategy of recruiting disgruntled and poorly performing members from the DA to do their bidding and then discarding them when they have served their purpose. This is a cyclical practice that surfaces before every election.

The DA is the only party committed to building One South Africa For All and focused on a future where we can all live together united and respectful of each other in our rich and unique diversity.

Regards

Mlindi Nhanha
DA EC Provincial Spokesperson

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