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Former deputy president, Baleka Mbete stands between the sculptures of Oliver and Adelaide Tambo. Picture: Damaris Helwig<\/p>\n
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Durban – Nelson Mandela might one day be looked upon as being like Jesus, the DA had no claim on him and should not use his name for electioneering, while the abaThembu king – who had insulted the president – deserved no respect. <\/p>\n
These were the messages driven home by the ANC\u2019s national chairwoman Baleka Mbete, who was speaking in Maphumulo, outside Stanger, on Thursday as part of the ANC\u2019s campaign for next year\u2019s general election. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must ask ourselves, \u2018when was Madiba part of the DA?\u2019 Let us not lie about it. Let us not say all of us were in the Struggle,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
While the ANC\u2019s Struggle history was well known, there were opposition parties who needed to prove where and when they had fought against apartheid, she said. <\/p>\n
Mbete was aware that the DA was campaigning in rural areas and giving out T-shirts, food parcels and cash. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately there are people with money and, with their money, they go around lying to people. We know they deceive poor people. They give you money, food and everything to blind you.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mbete called on young people to read Mandela\u2019s history to understand how liberation had been achieved. <\/p>\n
July 18 had been adopted by the UN as International Mandela Day and South Africans could be proud. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe should praise God for such a person. We should try to have the same values as him. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe, after one or two or three centuries, the generations of those times will look at Mandela the same way we look at Jesus Christ,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Mbete appealed to the crowd to pray for the ailing Mandela to get better and requested prayers for peace and sanity within his troubled family. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are bad things that are happening in the Mandela family, and we need to pray for them. I don\u2019t want to interfere in the Mandela family\u2019s problems. All I\u2019m asking for is to pray for peace in that family.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mbete lashed out at abaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo for \u201cinsulting\u201d President Jacob Zuma. <\/p>\n
\u201cA person who gives such insults does not deserve respect. I don\u2019t understand how a person with a king\u2019s status can insult an old person,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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