WATCH: Pule Mabe denies existence of ‘secret ANC office telling people to kill whites’

Speaking to a journalist during an interview with a French television channel, African National Congress (ANC) spokesperson Pule Mabe quelled rumours of the existence of a secret office within the ANC that supposedly sanctions the killing of white South Africans.

“This country is constructed on the fundamental principals that promote human rights; we have got a constitution which is the custodian of all of those rights,” responded Mabe after the unidentified journalist posed the question.

Our National Spokesperson Cde @pulemabe rejects the notion of the existance of an office within the ANC HQ where farm killings are discussed. This question was raised during an interview with French TV #ANCLeads pic.twitter.com/gKZKnDEO3R

— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 16, 2019

The French journalist went on to ask about the ANC’s plans to deal with farm murders that are often used as propaganda in international media to “prove” the existence of a white genocide in South Africa.

Our national spokesperson Cde @pulemabe says the state has plans to deal with all forms of crime including farm killings. He was speaking to French TV #ANCLeads pic.twitter.com/XXFmA8lGyR

— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 16, 2019

Our National Spokesperson Cde @pulemabe speaks against racializing crimes such as farm killings during an interview with French TV #ANCLeads pic.twitter.com/BNSgDuBNw0

— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 16, 2019

Mabe went on to say that racialising crimes went against everything that had been achieved by the post-apartheid government in their efforts to promote reconciliation.

Our National Spokesperson Cde @pulemabe speaking to French TV about concerns of a white genocide in South Africa #ANCLeads pic.twitter.com/FoDxBqYyBB

— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 16, 2019

This interview comes hot on the heels of a debate surrounding a recent social media promotional clip of an episode of Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show in which he compared EFF leader Julius Malema to Donald Trump.

The salient point of contention in the video was Noah’s use of the word ‘genocide’ in reference to Malema speaking about the killing of white people in South Africa.

Afriforum & Trump : There's a white genocide in SA.

SAns : WTF, there's no such, they are mad. Never.

Trevor Noah – Uses Malema &Genocide in the same sentence.

SAns – He is joking, he's a comedian.

Some things are deeper than u think. But ke, you voted ANC. I'm not surprised pic.twitter.com/GbHzAhY65I

— Socialism or nothing! (@Teekay_Mtimande) May 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/seretloe/status/1127482634928627712

"You people laughed when Trevor Noah made jokes about Zuma" yes we laughed, we also laughed when he made jokes about Julius Malema and other politians. The problem here is him feeding to the Afriforum false claims about white genocide.

— 𝙰𝙺 𝚄𝚉𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙸 🦊 (@Akhona_PQ) May 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/GuguGP/status/1127509236953620480

There were those who came to Noah’s defence.

Trevor Noah did my way there is a white genocide in SA. He said Julius talks about genocide in a certain way. Let’s not forget that what Julius is talking about is actually genocide

— Nikosha Rooi (@Kokoshido) May 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/uNgiba/status/1127625420977975298

Noah is yet to respond to the backlash.

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