Adriaan Basson | Burn after reading: 10 things worse than the DA's election ad

14 May

Adriaan Basson

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More than 10 000 people attended the DA's Rescue South Africa rally in Durban on Saturday. (Supplied/DA)

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a DA advertisement 'treasonous', but ignores the real treasonous actions of his ANC government in South Africa over the past 30 years, writes Adriaan Basson.

I love our national flag. It gives me great joy and pride to wave the flag when our national sporting teams play, particularly when they win.

I would never dare burn our flag. So why am I not outraged by the DA's so-called "flag burning" advertisement? The message of the ad is simple and uncontroversial: South Africa is burning under an ANC government that has failed its people on almost every score.

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