Cosatu has come out guns blazing at that DA Students’ Organisation poster that has raised a few eyebrows this week. Speaking in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday, Zet Luzipo, provincial secretary for Cosatu, and no stranger to speaking his mind, slammed the poster saying: “It entrenches white supremacy that we fought against during the liberation struggle.”

Zet isn’t at all pleased with the poster, and has stated it has nothing to do with education, but instead just opens up old wounds of history past.

Zet continued:

The posture says join the DA to have an affair with a white person. The DA thinks our struggle for democracy was about the Immorality Act and the Group Areas Act.

We will not be excited with having an affair with a white person; we will not be enticed by that.

Zet said it would be OK if the DA wanted to discuss non-racialism, though.

DA youth leader Makashule Gana explained the poster was in fact part of a campaign to create debate about race, and not anything to do with an act of infidelity:

To say that the poster is sexual is taking it to the extreme. The poster is saying a lot.

They are embracing each other, and it shows in this country that we can find an opportunity to embrace each other.

A few years ago, Zet got some pulses racing with his “kill for Zuma” comments:

If the Scorpions bite the wrong people we will kill them. Like a dog when it starts biting relatives at your home. You get rid of it. We will do the same to the Scorpions.

The scorpions were disbanded, but Zet probably didn’t have anything to do with that.

[Sources: iAfrica, IOL]