Prosecutor suspends Renaldo Gouws after video surfaced of him saying: “Kill all the m***ers”

After about a week as a member of parliament, Renaldo Gouws was suspended by his party DA. He also faces disciplinary action for racist insults he made in a video clip that was deleted in 2012 but archived. (Screenshot)

The DA has suspended its MP Renaldo Gouws after an old video clip of him resurfaced in which he can be heard saying: “Kill all the murderers.”

The party confirmed that he was suspended pending the completion of the internal investigation.

“The DA has determined that the video in which Renaldo Gouws uses vile language is in fact genuine and not a fake as initially suspected. The DA Federal Executive Board has therefore suspended Mr Gouws with immediate effect while he faces disciplinary proceedings before the party’s Federal Legal Commission,” the party said in a statement.

In the video clip, which was deleted but archived in 2012, a man who looks like a young Gouws can be heard using the K-word and the N-word.

Gouws has been a member of parliament for about a week.

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