The state spent R166 million to deploy over 3,000 defence force members, which it said was to ensure that the nationwide shutdown remained within the confines of the law.
JOHANNESBURG - The Economic Freedom Fighters said that the government was contradicting itself by calling the party's national shutdown a failure while it spent millions trying to suppress it.
In addition, police and metro police departments across the country clocked in millions in overtime on the days leading up to and after the protests.The EFF’s leader, Julius Malema, said it was very easy to measure whether the party's national shutdown was a success or not.
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