South Arica’s security cluster says there will be no national shutdown tomorrow, just a protest.
, the army, crime intelligence, police forces, and private security companies are joining together to counter any illegal activity during the planned action.Meanwhile, schools will be closed due to a special school holiday that was already part of the school calendar – confirmed two years ago – making the EFF’s threats to shut down schools on the day meaningless.
“There will be no national shutdown. We know of a planned protest. To say there will be a national shutdown is misleading,” said Natjoints chair deputy national police commissioner Tebello Mosikili. Malema has characterised the response from the state towards the protest as “threats and intimidation” – but in the same breath, is calling for revolution, saying it cannot be stopped.
Broadly and vaguely, the EFF wants Ramaphosa to resign and load shedding to end. It is also protesting anything else that could draw an emotional response from South Africans, such as high levels of unemployment, a rising cost of living, a lack of free tertiary education, corruption, gender-based violence and poor education.
Natjoints said that while every citizen has a right to protest, the right must be exercised in a manner that does not infringe on the rights of non-protesters. “This freedom to picket does not extend to propaganda of war, incitement of imminent violence, and advocacy for hatred,” it said.
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