DA Youth poster shocks Christian party
A DA Student Organisation poster showing a young mixed race couple in a passionate clinch is "shocking", the Christian Democratic Party said on Tuesday.
"At a stage when the country needs higher levels of morality, the DA launches a poster clearly promoting sexual immorality," party leader Theunis Botha said.
"There are many ways in which the DA could have projected its image as a non-racial party, rather than using a poster clearly promoting sexual promiscuity."
Botha said the poster was "distasteful to the extreme" and an insult to the many young people, black and white, who uphold high moral values.
"In a country with high levels of Aids and an overdose of crime, especially the high incidence of farm murders this year, this poster sends the opposite message to the country than needed."
The poster carried a tagline reading: "In our future you wouldn't look twice".
It received widespread attention on Monday after it was posted online by DA youth leader Makashule Gana.
Gana said the poster was part of a campaign to create debate about race.
"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.
"I don't know why there are negative comments about it. It is a work of art that depicts a future that we [the DA] would want to build."
Gana put the picture up on his Facebook page, and briefly used it as his Twitter avatar.
The picture elicited differing comments on both social networking sites.
A Facebook user said: "The nakedness completely diverts from the intended message of political togetherness. Unless politics really is all about sex?"
Another user said: "I don't see something sexual. They did this pic [sic] very well. The pose, the embrace, their expressions. It looks convincing, it looks like love, it looks beautiful."
One Twitter user asked: "Is the DA campaigning on behalf of white sugar-daddies who go after young native chicks?"
Another tweeted: "In my future, I hope those damn townships are gone in Cape Town and all the blacks have moved into Camps Bay to share that view."
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Posted 483 days agoTysonJopson
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AdriDames
Posted 483 days agoI share a continent with morons. Nice.
Mike123
Posted 483 days agoRogueTrooper
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it was christian missionaries who massacred hundreds of million ethnic inhabitants.
it was christian missionaries who captured people and sold them off as slaves.
it was christians who introduced, practiced and preached apartheid and racism.
it is the the church that is guilty of child molestation... from the pope down to the church mouse.
MichaelHancock
Posted 483 days agoGet a life...this poster promotes togetherness between black and white, isn't that what we all want!
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Posted 483 days agoRogueTrooper
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Posted 483 days agoGormogon
Posted 483 days agontwempe
Posted 483 days agoMay be it was gona attract simple black peoples if it was black man and white woman
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Posted 483 days agoMisterWendal
Posted 483 days agoHe - "That was great, madam!"
She - "Now go put on your overalls and finish cleaning my pool before my husband comes home!"
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To the DA youth, I also think their drive for non-racial society could have been depicted in another form.
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Posted 483 days agoLiti
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Posted 483 days agoCrackerCraker
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Posted 483 days agoMisterWendal
Posted 483 days agoThe caption reads "In our future, you wouldn't look twice" - but one would look twice if you came across a naked couple (irrespective of their race).
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Posted 483 days agoNeoBlack
Posted 483 days agoThe preservation of a white woman has over the years been an obsession of white masculinity.
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couldnt agree with you more.
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Posted 483 days agoget use to it.. its happening DA.. it is hapenning... this one is Mazibuko's dream...
Koos
Posted 483 days agoThis Botha clown has just in that one paragraph exposed not only how much of a bigot he is but just how really dumb he actually is,..I mean what does crime and farm murders have to do with interracial relationships? smh
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Posted 483 days agodeebee
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Posted 483 days agoSide By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why Don't We?
We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go
There Is Good And Bad In Ev'ryone,
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give
Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive.
Paul McCartney
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Right or Wrong ? ....... Right and Wrong ? ........ Black or White ? ........ Black and White ?
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Posted 482 days agocoaxel