National Shutdown: Santaco supports EFF's protest but won't be joining

Santaco said that they had not been approached by the EFF to participate in the planned shutdown:

The EFF called for the shutdown in protest against an array of problems faced by South Africans including loadshedding and unemployment while also calling for the resignation of Cyril Ramaphosa.

He added that some associations had been approached and it would be up to them to decide whether to participate or not”. However, the protest action was called off following a successful meeting between Santaco and the Western Cape department for mobility. “The Land Party asks landers, fighters, taxi associations, black and coloured communities, gang leaders, workers, the poor, backyard dwellers, the landless people, civil organisations, churches and progressive forces to unite against DA [Democratic Alliance] racism in the Western Cape,” read the party’s statement, adding that the DA “has been using this tactic in the Western Cape collaborating with the Cape high court to deny poor communities a right to protest”.

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