“In the 2019 elections, there were a lot of ANC campaign posters, but there was no electricity. This year, I haven't seen any ANC campaign posters, but we have plenty of electricity.”
South African musician and parody artist The Kifness (real name David Scott) outraged South Africans on Friday by sharing a controversial election meme on his X (former Twitter account).
Caption: The meme “Which South Africa?'' depicts a white boy at a crossroads, with one path leading to groups such as the ANC, Patriotic Alliance, Umkhonto We Sizwe, Good and We Sizwe, etc. It leads to a dark and frightening castle with political logos painted on it. PAC paving the route. The other road leading to the beautiful, sun-drenched castle bears the logos of the DA, IFP, Freedom Front Plus, Action SA and the African Christian Democratic Party.
Netizens flocked to the comments section of the meme accusing Scott of being racist. citizen We reached out to Scott for comment on the meme on Friday, but have not yet received a response.
Despite being dragged through the streets of social media, Kifnes seems determined to cause further chaos regarding the upcoming election on May 29th.
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Load shedding and ANC Kiffness
On Sunday afternoon, Mr Scott returned to his He urged them to vote.
“The ANC would like you to believe that a month of no shedding means there is light at the end of the tunnel. And know that the traffic light means a tunnel ahead. Vote wisely on May 29th,” the first post read.
Less than an hour later, Scott followed up that post with another.
“During the 2019 elections, there were a lot of ANC campaign posters but no electricity. This year I didn’t see any ANC campaign posters but there was a lot of electricity. Has anyone else noticed that? He wrote.
Late Sunday afternoon, he appealed to X again, sharing three photos of a depressed man staring right in front of him. The post was captioned: “Eskom waiting for May 30th push.” (Eskom se Push is an app that allows you to see which areas will be affected by power outages on any given day.)
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