Gareth Cliff has continued his longstanding social media feud with Fikile Mbalula with another shady post.
The former shock jock and the politician have often butt heads over their views on trending South African topics.
GARETH CLIFF SHADES FIKILE MBALULA
On his X account, Gareth Cliff joined many South Africans who reacted to Floyd Shivambu’s resignation from the MK Party. The Secretary-General was forced to leave his post after he bragged about visiting fugitive Shepherd Bushiri at his home in Malawi.
Fikile Mbalula – who also has a much-publicised feud with Floyd – threw shade at his political nemesis.
Fikile tweeted: “Zuma uSleg, they made Floyd draft the constitution to only use the same constitution to remove him”.
Floyd clapped back: “Like he decisively used the Constitution to take the ‘mighty’ ANC to 40% and left you begging for cooperation with the white minority.”
He added: “I respect and will forever respect President Zuma”.
Weighing into the fiery face-off, Gareth Cliff responded: “Floyd is smarter than Fikile.”
He cheekily posted a proverb referring to Fikile: “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king.”
INSIDE THEIR FEUD
Over the years, Fikile Mbalula and Gareth Cliff have often taken shots at each other on the X platform [formerly Twitter].
In 2014, Fikile gave the Cliff Central founder a tongue-lashing after he questioned why the late Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was given a state funeral.
Fikile clapped back: “Who paid for Verwoerd’s funeral? And who paid for PW Botha’s funeral? It is the state, did they deserve it?… We never asked because we respect the dead.
In 2016, the then Minister of Sport threw shade at Gareth Cliff’s axing from talent show, Idols South Africa, after the latter seemingly defended convicted racist Penny Sparrow.
“M-Net should tell him to jump over his surname”, he posted and deleted.
Last year, Gareth Cliff shamed Fikile for driving a multi-million rand G-Wagon during the ANC’s election drive in underprivileged areas.
Reposting a clip of the ANC Secretary-General, the Gareth tweeted: “This is like when John Kerry flies in a private jet and criticizes rich people for their carbon footprint; or when every other hypocrite tells you to do as they say, not as they do.
“Fikile loves a G-Wagon and couldn’t say no, even though this one was lent to him by a crook.
He added: “These venal, grasping parvenus are always caught trying to become the crass rich people they hate, but we’re expected to pretend it’s not obvious. ‘Tsek”.
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