ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula lambasts EFF for ‘anti-democracy agenda’
Judging by the statement from ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula about the EFF-led national shutdown on Monday, the governing party was much relieved that the march ended without any major incident.
Mbalula said the shutdown was a failure because South Africans “refused to be coopted into an anti-democracy agenda that sought to undermine the authority of the state and remove a democratically elected government through nefarious and undemocratic means”. Addressing the media from Luthuli House, he said the national shutdown was intended to paralyse the country and cripple the economy as a pretext to instigate insurrection and, in essence, undermine the ideals of Human Rights Month.
He said there was no doubt that the manner in which the shutdown was organised and branded was an attempt to “foment undemocratic politics”.
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