The DA has brought an urgent application against the EFF to have the shutdown declared unlawful and interdicted, arguing that it was not protected under notice given under the Gatherings Act.
JOHANNESBURG - Lawyers for the Democratic Alliance said that the party was worried that the police would not be able to contain the Economic Freedom Fighter 's national shutdown planned for Monday.DA leader John Steenhuisen said in its papers that they supported the right to protest.
Pointing to notices and communications issued by the EFF, he said that this was effectively what the national shutdown was seeking to do.
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