โCrime is what we were born for as k****rs.โ
These were the words Free State mayor Motloheloa Mokatsane said to a crowd of black community members demonstrating outside the Viljoenskroon magistrateโs court.
The crowd was there in connection with a gender-based violence case.
A video of Mokatsane saying this in Sesotho has been doing the rounds on social media.
He seemed to be taken aback when community members objected to him referring to them as k****rs. Some said โnoโ and shook their heads in disagreement with his statement.
โOK comrades, let me put in a different way,โ he said as he tried to salvage the situation.
โWe, as black people, are violent and suffering violence every day,โ he said.
Mokatsaneโs office has since issued a statement, saying he apologised unreservedly to the community and the nation for his โrecklessโ use of the k-word.
โThe mayor wholeheartedly retracts the use of the k-word and the offence this might have caused to the entire society,โ the statement read.
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