The official opposition Democratic Alliance has suggested that not only should African National Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela be used as a human shield in Iraq — but she should move there permanently.
DA chief whip Douglas Gibson said in a statement today — in reaction to a suggestion yesterday by Madikizela-Mandela that she travel to Iraq as a human shield: ”I challenge Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to live up to her offer to
travel to Iraq as a human shield. She has become a stranger to the corridors of
parliament and she will not be missed. Perhaps she should resign and move
permanently to Iraq.”
Gibson said further that her ”chronic absenteeism” from parliament and its proceedings prevented her from hearing his leader Tony Leon who said on Monday — during the debate on the president’s opening of parliament speech —
that the war for South Africans would not be fought on the streets of Baghdad but must be fought at home against poverty and Aids ”before jetting off all across the globe.”
Madikizela-Mandela, who made a rare appearance in parliament at the opening on Friday, has urged other women to join her as a shield in Iraq. – I-Net-Bridge