Businessman, Vusi Thembekwayo, has landed in hot water for his comments about Apartheid government

Businessman Vusi Thembekwayo has landed in hot water for his comments about Apartheid government. The businessman has been slammed by social media after he claimed that the apartheid government would have arrested AKA’s killers within 24 hours.

Thembekwayo was speaking to eNCA’s Power to Truth during a discussion about South Africa’s financial crisis when he made the comments.

The entrepreneur compared the ANC government’s “incapability” to the apartheid government’s “capabilities’’ and made an example about the death of slain rapper AKA.

“Let me make this as a controversial statement... If, God forbid, what happened to Kiernan Forbes happened during apartheid, and the apartheid government wanted to find the killer, they would have found that killer in 24 hours”.

“That is a fact , and I know it… So the question for everyone to ask themselves is how could we have gone from such an incredibly capable state to the state of such incapability,” he said.

Thembekwayo also acknowledged that there are capable people within the public sector, however, they are also frustrated under the current leadership.

He explained that as much as the apartheid state was abhorrent, it had capable machinery, including the police. He said of his “controversial statement”: “If, God forbid, what happened to Kiernan Forbes happened during Apartheid, and the Apartheid government wanted to find the killer, they would’ve found that killer in 24 hours”.

“That is a fact….so the question for everyone to ask themselves is how could we have gone from such an incredibly capable state to the state of such incapability”.

And while a handful agreed with the entrepreneur, many were confused by his ramblings.

@PhutiMashishi5: “Except in Apartheid Era, they were going to find the killer in 24 hours, truth if the victim was white. But if black, they wouldn’t care. So what are you talking about here?”

@teddypleasure: “The true answer is no because they wouldn’t even bother to look.”

@majazztic: “I have a problem with people who push the narrative that Apartheid was better than the current state because that’s just total bullsh*t. Apartheid is the worst government system you can ever apply to any society.”

@MandlevuT: “This is nonsensical. The Apartheid government would have been the one to kill, AKA. Vusi Thembekwayo is kissing the a** of an Apartheid apologist.”

@pablitokov: “Truth is they wouldn’t even investigate because the victim was not white enough for them to care. But bo Vusi knows everything because of his accents.”

@ThatNiggaEphy: “The Apartheid gov was terrible at caring about the affairs of non-whites and were not very capable and efficient.”