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The DA condemns ANC acts of pure criminality, in broad daylight on the streets of the City of Cape Town yesterday.

Images today show an ANC t-shirted member robbing and assaulting a patron at a City restaurant, during yesterday’s Ses’Khona looting parade.

These images expose the ANC and Ses’Khona as bedfellows in a campaign of crime and destabilization.

It is disgraceful that ANC branded members committed crimes on our streets, including the theft of personal belongings from restaurant patrons and looting of small businesses.

This is a new low for even the ANC, whose disrespect for the rule of law increases every day.

It is pure hypocrisy that an ANC t-shirt branded with words of “selfless struggle” is worn in the commission of a theft; a crime of pure selfishness.

The DA welcomes an announcement yesterday that the Western Cape Government has requested the SAPS to study CCTV footage and to identify the criminal perpetrators. The DA calls on the SAPS to act swiftly in arresting suspects.

We will not allow the ANC to bring their criminal acts to our streets.

This thuggery will not be tolerated where the DA governs.

Issued by DA