DA's Steenhuisen slates 'wokes & snowflakes', says PA should be called 'Pollsmoor Alliance'

JOHANNESBURG - Democratic Alliance (DA) federal leader, John Steenhuisen, said the Patriotic Alliance (PA) should be known as the Pollsmoor Alliance, as he slated the "wokes and snowflakes" who can't stand him because he's a "straight shooter".

This as he defended his widely criticised view that small parties were political mercenaries.

Steenhuisen was speaking in the Eastern Cape as part of his country-wide campaign ahead of the elections on 29 May. 

The DA leader said the country had to be honest about the problems it was facing.

"The wokes and the snowflakes don’t like it when you shoot straight, so you will see they always come up with the "he's so tone deaf" - they say you're tone deaf when you are telling them what they don’t want to hear. But it's the truth and we will always talk the truth as the DA." 

While he didn't list the small parties he takes issue with, he paid special attention to the Patriotic Alliance, making reference to the Western Cape's Pollsmoor correctional facility.

Leaders of the PA, its president, Gayton McKenzie and his deputy, Kenny Kunene, are convicted criminals who rose to fame after exposing some of the happenings in the country's prisons.

Steenhuisen accused the PA of bringing gangsters to loot Nelson Mandela Bay.

He said voters shouldn't leave the door open for parties like the PA.

"Like the Patriotic Alliance should be called the Pollsmoor Alliance, they come and kick out brave mayors like Retief Odendal, who was standing up for the people of the Bay. Who do they replace him with? They replace him with criminals and gangsters who are busy looting the city dry."