WATCH | McKenzie fires back at Malema: ‘I’ll never be a victim of your ungovernableness’

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Cape Town — Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has continued his war of words with Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema.

The feud began during a National Assembly plenary session when Malema repeatedly referred to McKenzie as a “pantiti” (jailbird), highlighting McKenzie’s criminal past.

Malema refused to retract his statement, saying that calling McKenzie a jailbird was not vulgar but a factual acknowledgment, and said he was proud to admit it.

In response, McKenzie, who leads the Patriotic Alliance, pointed out that his name was on the ballot, and the voters had chosen him.

Addressing Malema again at a Heritage Month launch in Pretoria, McKenzie said that he was not insulted by the comments.

He further noted that when French President Emmanuel Macron invited President Cyril Ramaphosa to a function in Paris, it was McKenzie whom Ramaphosa chose to represent him, as reported by TimesLIVE.

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“If Ramaphosa, whom we all love, recommends that I speak to his equal in France and sees me as worthy of sending to functions in Paris, how can I worry about people going through a serious divorce in the progressive alliance?” he asked,

He did not stop there, as he took to X to once again take issue with Malema. Although he did not mention him by name, he alluded to the bullying he faced and that he would not be a victim of his insults.

“You have bullied, interrupted, and insulted MPs in full view of South Africans. I will never be a victim of your ungovernableness because I am equally ungovernable when the situation demands. You got away with it because people let it pass, I am not that type,” he wrote.

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