It seems like the red beret is the new hot fashion item of the season.
The ANC, EFF and SACP are at loggerheads over the ownership of the red beret made popular in SA by the new political group headed by Julius Malema.
The war of words reportedly started after ANC members were seen wearing red berets with the ANC logo while on a door-to-door campaign with President Zuma in Mpumalanga yesterday.
Taking to twitter to vent his anger, EFF’s Floyd Shivambu wrote: “Those who claim the SACP started with red berets must tell us where and when? I worked for the SACP and there wasn’t the slightest sign of red berets.”
Advocate Dali Mpofu also made his thoughts known, tweeting: “The ONLY certainty is that the RED BERETS are going to win the election. The only question is WHICH ONES... The REAL THING or the COPYCATS??”
Founder of PASSOP, Bram Hanekom chose the ANC’s side with his post: “Red berets have always belonged to the ANC and its alliance. An up-shoot group of looters can't claim to own them.”
According to a report by City Press, some of the ANC members who donned the red berets in Mpumalanga claimed that it was a strategy to ‘confuse the enemy’.
So where did the red beret come from?
Berets which were originally worn by military members in World war 2 were made popular by Che Guevara, the face of Latin American revolution who is admired by most EFF members.
Former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara also made the red beret his signature trademark.
That's my hat!: ANC and EFF fight over rights to red berets
It seems like the red beret is the new hot fashion item of the season.
The ANC, EFF and SACP are at loggerheads over the ownership of the red beret made popular in SA by the new political group headed by Julius Malema.
The war of words reportedly started after ANC members were seen wearing red berets with the ANC logo while on a door-to-door campaign with President Zuma in Mpumalanga yesterday.
Taking to twitter to vent his anger, EFF’s Floyd Shivambu wrote: “Those who claim the SACP started with red berets must tell us where and when? I worked for the SACP and there wasn’t the slightest sign of red berets.”
Advocate Dali Mpofu also made his thoughts known, tweeting: “The ONLY certainty is that the RED BERETS are going to win the election. The only question is WHICH ONES... The REAL THING or the COPYCATS??”
Founder of PASSOP, Bram Hanekom chose the ANC’s side with his post: “Red berets have always belonged to the ANC and its alliance. An up-shoot group of looters can't claim to own them.”
According to a report by City Press, some of the ANC members who donned the red berets in Mpumalanga claimed that it was a strategy to ‘confuse the enemy’.
So where did the red beret come from?
Berets which were originally worn by military members in World war 2 were made popular by Che Guevara, the face of Latin American revolution who is admired by most EFF members.
Former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara also made the red beret his signature trademark.
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