NFP demands Ramaphosa retract ‘offensive’ term used to describe unemployed
The National Freedom
Party has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to apologise for using what it
deems to have been an offensive word to describe the jobless and unskilled.
Ramaphosa addressed thousands of ANC supporters at the party's 111th anniversary celebration at the Dr Petrus Molemela Stadium in Mangaung on Sunday.
The president delivered the party’s January 8 statement.
During his address, Ramaphosa referred to the unemployed in the country as "iziphukuphuku" - an IsiZulu word meaning stupid.
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The party’s Canaan Mdletshe says the majority of the people in this country do not have skills, not because of their own making or choice, but due to circumstance.
"President Ramaphosa must withdraw such a statement, otherwise the NFP will sit down with the legal team and see whether we can report it to the Human Rights Commission or any authorised institution to investigate whether president was right to use such a word."
