Cape Town – ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has taken a swipe at Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula over his recent tweet about Ukraine.
Mashaba described the minister’s behaviour as “shameful”
Mbalula caused a stir on social media when he posted a cryptic tweet about his “trip” to Ukraine over the weekend.
Just landed in Ukraine ??
— FIKILE MBALULA | MR FIX (@MbalulaFikile) March 5, 2022
The tweet subsequently incited retweets from social media users who felt that the minister was trivialising the current war in Ukraine and Russia.
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“Is this war in Ukraine a joke to our minister? What a shame!” Mashaba tweeted.
Is this war in Ukraine a joke to our Minister?
What a shame! https://t.co/lXQVBQPhyX— Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) March 7, 2022
According to TimesLive, Mbalula refused to respond to a question pertaining to his tweet on Monday, during his visit to the driving licence testing centres in Gauteng.
“I am not going to comment on that.
“I did not trivialise anything and I won’t comment on that,” the report quoted Mbalula as saying.
Tweeps weighed in:
Minister Fikile Mbalula just landed in Ukraine. Best response on Twitter: have the people of Ukraine not suffered enough???
— Jonathan Jansen (@JJ_Stellies) March 6, 2022
Fikile Mbalula has gone to Ukraine. Why? No one knows.
I see trains taking civilians out of Kiev and to safety in Poland. The trains and rails all work. The stations are decent. And this is in the middle of an actual war zone.
Has he gone there to break it?
— Richard Wilkinson (@wilkinsoncape) March 5, 2022
What a joke. Minister Fikile Mbalula is in the Ukraine as per his Twitter account. Haven’t the people of Ukraine suffered enough? ??
— Jacques de Goede (@JDEGOEDE) March 5, 2022
Abo Fikile Mbalula bathandwa ukubukwa. They are failing in their portfolios and yet go to Ukraine. For what? If he’s so concerned about lives, he should’ve went to Phoenix last as Indians were slaughtering Blacks. ANC has never loved us, since there was Codesa to date. ?? https://t.co/fwPUaMszQF
— The Iron Duke (Unruly) ??? (@ScelonG) March 5, 2022
What is Fikile Mbalula going to do in Ukraine? Fix potholes?
— Papa Neo Risima (@Lany__SKA) March 5, 2022
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