South Africa's Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, is once again embroiled in controversy as old social media posts have resurfaced, revealing the use of a highly offensive racial slur, reports Cape town Etc .
These posts, which target Black South Africans with derogatory language, have sparked renewed public outrage, especially in light of McKenzie's recent vocal stance against racism.
The posts were shared on X formerly known as Twitter when McKenzie was a businessman and the leader of the Patriotic Alliance. In one of his posts, he criticized the term Black Diamond while using the racially charged term that many in South Africa consider as reprehensible.
Political commentators and social media users have not held back in their criticisms, labelling McKenzie a hypocrite for pursuing legal action that resulted in the cancellation of the Open Chats Podcast over its offensive remarks about the Coloured community, while simultaneously engaging in racially charged rhetoric himself.
As the backlash builds, McKenzie and Patriotic Alliance are yet to publicly address the resurfaced posts. However, on Friday evening he wrote on his X account that : This whole campaign to find something racist I ever said is hilarious because you have now gone 13 years back and can't bring out one racist thing I ever said. I always and still fight that Coloureds and Blacks are one people being treated differently mistakenly.