The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has rejected the deployment of the army across the country ahead of the party’s planned nationwide shutdown tomorrow.
This comes after the government announced that more than 3 400 members of the South African Defence Force have been deployed in South Africa to support the police in securing law and order in the next month in South Africa.
The EFF has slammed this move by the government, saying it demonstrated that the government was intolerant to dissent. “This act demonstrates the bloodthirsty nature of the current government and the intolerance of the ruling party to dissent and opposition,” reads the EFF statement in part. The party says the deployment of the army ahead of the much-anticipated nationwide protest was unconstitutional, calling it an apartheid tactic.
“South has degenerated into a military state, and the deployment of the army to suppress the constitutional right to protest, means we have returned to the dark days of apartheid. The current deployment of the army and law enforcement agencies, has surpassed that of the apartheid regime in the 80s during the State of Emergency, meaning that Ramaphosa has declared war on the people of South Africa,” says the EFF.
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