President Jacob Zuma may have survived the ANC fires, but the nation is not that forgiving, and several marches have been planned across the country on Friday calling for the president to step down.
The protests follow a cabinet reshuffle and the removal of former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas and the appointment of several new ministers and deputy ministers.
Organisations that have pledged support for the protest action are Save South Africa, Corruption Watch, Treatment Action Campaign, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, Lawyers for Human Rights, Section27, Johannesburg Against Injustice and the National Religious Leaders’ Council.
According to the organisers, the march has also been endorsed by the South African University Staff Association, the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign, and Co-operative and Policy Alternative Centre.
In Pretoria various civil organisations under the banner #SaveSouthAfrica have organised a march from Church Square to the Union Buildings at noon, via Madiba Street.
Themba Masango, national convener of the #SaveSouthAfrica campaign, said the core message of the People’s March was “Zuma must go, and must go immediately”.
He urged South Africans to come out in their numbers to join the march irrespective of their political affiliations.
“If you are a South African and you are tired of the status quo, just come out and join the march. We are tired and we can’t keep working this way. Let’s get our democracy working,” he said.
Social justice activist Mark Heywood said the march would be peaceful and legal.
The SACP will stage another march from Marabastad at 10am to the National Treasury offices in the city centre.
There it will hand over its memorandum of demands. The SACP members will then join the People’s March.
The campaigners against the Zuma leadership were in discussion with universities and expected their support. IOL
Whites always confuse issues. This has also been the problem in Zim, all along. They were not seen anywhere during Gukurahundi, and in fact some of them actually participated via the airforce in killing our people; but today they are using the same Gukurahundi argument against their erstwhile Prime Minister whom they then supported, just because he has now taken their land away and is now talking indeginisation!!
Do you know that most of these white owned companies and farmers have in the last 23 years of SA’s Democracy been refusing their black workers time off to vote during elections, in case they voted for the ANC – even half a day. This despite govt pleadings to them to allow people to exercise their democratic rights. But today, they have been given time off without government pleading with them. Sies!!
It now seem to be DA versus ANC march. Which make it loose its value. Whereas the idea of cabinet reshuffle should be a national concern not political as it look now.
Correction in my opening question: ….anti-black racist tweets…..
Look at the white faces? Have they ever marched against anti-racist tweets by mostly opposition DA White members? What about marching against Blacks thrown into Lion dens by white farmers? I am not mixing things here; but this idea of them coming out in numbers when it means fighting the pro-black ANC and only where their own interests are under threat is in my view very irritating. Had they been involved in ALL national issues of concern, I would have no problem with them marching this time around. Some of them are even wearing T-shirts with American flags – sies!!
Its now South Africans marching , how will they be treated, will their march bring a change, any violence against innocent civilians, any violence against protestors. Let’s look and see