The former St John’s College pupil and speaker of the Johannesburg Junior Council who recently completed a Master’s degree at Oxford University in England, is the son of Economic Freedom Fighters premier candidate for Gauteng, Dali Mpofu.
In the song entitled Mr President, the 25-year-old also known as Vice V, calls for citizens to stand up for social change and for Zuma to step down. It also has extracts of speeches by Julius Malema and Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota.
Parts of the lyrics say, “Mr President, can you hear the people on the streets, see the hunger, the anger, now they praying for your defeat. Marikana, Nkandla and Spy Tapes is deceit… 700 charges and you still don’t get it, you killed the ANC, the struggle has been beheaded and just how many friends’ daughters have you bedded… Mr Zuma, your time is up.”
In the speech extract Lekota says, “What has become of us? Now we are being told that [we are going to pay more taxes] but we are not being told what is government doing to recover… the R45 billion that disappeared… the R200 million that went into Nkandla. I will not be silenced.”
Mpofu-Walsh said the song is a remix of Tunisian rapper EL General’s song Rais Lebled, which played a role in the Tunisian revolution which led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
“The time to stand up and be counted is here. Controversial, hard-hitting but ultimately necessary. As was shown in Tunisia in 2011, it only takes one group of connected people to get a country talking,” Mpofu-Walsh said.
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