Cape Town
Ronnie Kasrils says critics who turned to personal insults after the launch of the “Vukani! Sidikiwe! No-vote (Wake Up! We Are Fed Up!)” campaign have debased the political debate.
The former intelligence minister has been called “a factory fault” and had his anti-apartheid struggle credentials, including his leading role in Umkhonto we Sizwe, questioned since the launch of the campaign to strategically vote for opposition parties or spoil the May 7 ballots in protest against government corruption and maladministration.
“I’m an old hand. I’ve been through the mill 100 000 times. My skin is pretty thick and my shoulders are broad,” Kasrils told the Cape Argus. “That is not to say that I enjoy the way in which certain people in the ANC and the SACP have decided to descend to the gutter and spew out all sorts of insults… and totally debase the political debate.”
