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Toya Delazy is on Twitter’s wrong side after penning #UnrestSA letter

Singer Toya Delazy takes the heat from Twitter again after penning a passionate letter about the recent unrests in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Toya Delazy Image via Instagram @toyadelazy

Toya Delazy has gotten on the wrong side of Twitter users before and this time isn’t any different. Commenting on the recent unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in an open letter, tweeps weren’t too impressed with the singer. 

TOYA’S OPEN LETTER TO REVOLT TV

The My City hitmaker penned an open letter to Revolt TV, an American television network founded by Sean Combs, popularly known as P Diddy. The title of Toya’s letter is an eye catcher as she writes: 

“What’s happening in South Africa is going to destroy an entire generation if it’s not fixed.”

She further writes that the country is going through a “massacre” unlike any other after 1990 when Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president. 

“We believed that a rainbow nation was being birthed and the past was immediately sanctified with apartheid warlords such as FW de Klerk being exonerated against crimes against humanity and life going on as usual.”

‘UMSHOLOZI GOT THE LOVE’

She adds that South Africa is on the brink of a terrible civil war and highlights what sparked the unrest in South Africa’s most populated provinces, the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma. 

Further in her letter, Toya stresses the love some South Africans have for Jacob Zuma but also speaks shortly about how things weren’t too good under his leadership. Being a Zulu woman herself she highlighted he was the first Zulu president South Africa has ever had. 

“He is also a Zulu, and his imprisonment bruised a lot of Zulus as he was the first Zulu president.”

SOCIAL MEDIA REACTS

Taking to social media, Toya shared that being published by Revolt TV is a major accomplishment for her and she is inspired to finish writing her book. 

Responding to her tweet, author of Mpumi’s Magic Beads Lebohang Masango notes that Toya Delazy’s post was well-meaning but mention indications of genocide is wrong. 

“Actual political analysts have written about the situation and it’s a pity that you choose not to use those credible sources of information”, she writes. 

These were the reactions of other tweeps. 

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