The George Municipality has cancelled the leasing of the local City Hall where the outspoken singer, Steve Hofmeyr would have performed next week.
This followed after the ANC in the Western Cape warned that members would picket at the event if the concert went ahead.
Western Cape ANC provincial secretary Faiez Jacobs claimed that Hofmeyer was a white supremacist and racist bigot and that they would picket the event if it took place.
He said that allowing Hofmeyr to use the hall would have been seen as the Municipality's endorsement of Hofmeyr's controversial views about black and coloured people.
George Municipality spokesperson Debra Sauer told Algoa FM news that the event would not be happening, but did not want to comment as to whether the municipality was bowing to pressure from the ANC.
"George Municipality reserves the right in terms of official policy to cancel the leasing of any municipal facility, giving 48 hours prior written notice. In this instance this right has been applied as the proposed event cannot be endorsed," she said.
In a message on his Facebook page, Hofmeyr said that he won't be silenced.
"The concert in George will continue. With it I respect the constitution as well as my contract with George's people. I'm g a politician. My contract as poet, with George and South Africa, is to hear my people. To be the poet that sings about what they bother.... If you can't stand fearless before the onderdrukkers of your people, you are not worth the name " artist."
"...People don't come to my concert for politics. They come to hear if they may still exist," Hofmeyr wrote.
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