The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) on Friday said it supports the “Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s bid to remove the Economic Freedom Front’s (EFF) Thabo Mabotja from the local government candidate councillors’ nomination list”.

This came a day the Electoral Court postponed proceedings against him prompted by his Facebook post “calling for white people to be hacked and killed”.

Sanco Jabu Mahlangu said: “Mabotja’s racist comments are not only an affront to our constitutional democracy as well as abuse of freedom of speech‚ they are barbaric and undermine efforts to reclaim and entrench reconciliation‚ nation-building‚ including social cohesion.”

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He also “called for additional criminal charges to be formulated against Mabotja for hate speech and inciting violence”.

“There is no place in society for those who harbour Mabotja’s views‚” Mahlangu said.

The Electoral Court reportedly delayed proceedings as it was unhappy with the way Mabotja was summonsed to appear before it.

Mabotja was apparently impossible to track down as he was on the campaign trail. Who he was campaigning for was unclear‚ as EFF leader Julius Malema said the Tshwane councillor “is on his own” after making the comments.

– TMG Digital