Ntsiki Mazwai explains her Global Citizen remarks

Ntsiki Mazwai has come under fire following the remarks she made concerning the Global Citizen.

She took to Twitter to express her anger of the event, this is what she said; The concept of this concert was evil, ugly, and excluded most people. You deserved to get robbed for spitting in the faces of the poor. Then you put the show near the poor – aninyi perhaps?”

She landed on the Twitter trends list after South Africans called her “insensitive” and “bitter”.

She later took to Twitter to defend her remarks and this is what she had to say;

“I did not say that the [Global Citizen] Festival goers deserved to be robbed. What I said was ‘how dare you put a middle class, elitist event in the neighbourhood of the poor and expect nothing to happen’. That is spitting in the faces of the poor, and anybody who spits in the faces of the poor does deserve that. And yes maAfrika, in Africa we don’t spit in the faces of the poor, we don’t gloat.

“South Africa has the highest rate of inequality in the world. I mean we’ve got the highest number of poor people compared to a small number of rich people in the world. I’m not going to let the small number of rich people make fools and buffoons of the big number of the masses.”

“The festival has now contributed to a situation where people were put in danger, the festival should be made to account. I will not be used as a scapegoat, that’s what the media is doing. I did not say that spectators deserved to be robbed, I said how dare you to put this event in the backyard of the poor.”

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NTSIKI MAZWAI RESPONDS TO GLOBAL CITIZEN ALLEGATIONS "You will NOT use me as a sccapegoat!" pic.twitter.com/xODQv43ID0

— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) December 4, 2018