DA terminates Renaldo Gouws' party membership
Gouws is curently being investigated by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for allegedly using racist and derogatory terms in a recorded rant about black South Africans.
Renaldo Gouws. Picture: Facebook
JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance (DA) said it was committed to a non-racist South Africa after firing its controversial member of Parliament, Renaldo Gouws.
The party on Friday afternoon announced that it had resolved to terminate Gouws' membership with the DA after finding him guilty of contravening several sections of its constitution.
Gouws came under fire from the party and the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHR) after a video of him resurfaced allegedly using racist and derogatory language.
[JUST IN] The DA has fired Renaldo Gouws.
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Gouws was being investigated by the party after a video resurfaced of him allegedly using racist and derogatory language.
The DA’s Federal Executive “unanimously” resolved to terminate his membership. He is no longer a MP. TCG pic.twitter.com/Uxx3TUDrNk
In June this year, Gouws was sworn in as a member of Parliament.
It was a big step up for him as his previous position was ward councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.
However, Gouws' time in the National Assembly would prove to be short-lived as less than a week after his swearing-in, a video he took in 2010 resurfaced.
In this video, Gouws is seen using the N-word and the K-word to refer to black people.
While Gouws said that he used the words in a satirical manner to respond to Julius Malema’s singing the "Kill the boer" song, it seems the DA, did not see it this way.
Gouws' axing from the DA comes a day after the party leader asked another controversial figure, Roman Cabanac, to step down as his chief of staff.