Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma's so-called racial campaign against the DA is a response to the DA's attempt to tamper with history, says ANC senior member Fikile Mbalula.
Mbalula, who defended Zuma’s continued use of race in this election campaign, told reporters on Thursday that the president was simply setting the record straight.
Throughout the campaign Zuma has been telling voters that the DA is a modern version of the now-defunct National Party.
He has been labelling black members of the DA, including its leader Mmusi Maimane as sell-outs who were teaming up with their past oppressors.
The DA has cried foul, accusing Zuma of sowing racial divisions.
“It is the DA that is trying to distort history, they are now saying they were part of the liberation struggle, using Mandela in their posters,” Mbalula said.
He was speaking ahead of the ANC'S Siyanqoba rally in Johannesburg this weekend.
Thousands of ANC supporters are expected to fill up the Ellis Park Stadium in the party's last major rally before the elections.
Election Bureau