The ex-5FM DJ and SA Idols judge who now runs CliffCentral studios in Rivonia, questioned who was paying for Meyiwa’s funeral on Twitter and set the social network on fire.
Tweets poured in from various people who condemned his question, and others who were just as curious as him.
On his blog Cliff said he did not ask the question to be controversial, or because he was looking for attention.
He explained, “I don’t care that my Twitter following went up. I am furious too – furious that a great footballer is dead, another innocent man killed for no good reason.”
He defended his question on Twitter and said he believed it was a good question, and one which should be asked. “Especially because politicians love using the grandstand a funeral provides as a soap-box from which to manipulate emotional people,” he added.
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