The African National Congress (ANC) said on Thursday it has rescheduled its plan to lay charges of crimen injuria against singer Steve Hofmeyr.
The ANC will now lay the charges against Hofmeyr on Monday, 24 June 2019
Hofmeyr's tweets smacked of "barbarism, white supremacy and toxic masculinity", said the governing party.
"Following tweets by DA member Phumzile van Damme, Hofmeyr issued death threats against South Africa’s Ambassador to Denmark, Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane and DA MP Phumzile Van Damme.
"His string of social media posts denigrating Mandela-Hlongwane and Van Damme hark back to the crude apartheid past and something that no South African should tolerate," said ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe.
In the tweet being referred to, Hofmeyr said: "Dear @zilevandamme and @ZindziMandela I'm a South African tax-paying citizen. Effectively, I AM your boss. You WILL jump when I say so and you WILL ask how high. And when you come to take our lives&land, you WILL die. Our contract is that simple. And don't you forget it."
Hofmeyr was responding to a series of tweets from both women in unrelated incidents.
Van Damme on Tuesday used Twitter to relay what she described as a racist incident at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, which ended up with her assaulting the young man who allegedly made the slur.
African News Agency (ANA - Pic: via Twitter)