NATIONAL SHUTDOWN: EFF vows to bring SA to a standstill next month Photos: Twitter
NATIONAL SHUTDOWN: EFF vows to bring SA to a standstill next month
The EFF vowed to bring SA to a standstill next month with their NATIONAL SHUTDOWN. Here is everything you need to know now.
NATIONAL SHUTDOWN: EFF vows to bring SA to a standstill next month Photos: Twitter
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema recently vowed that his organisation would bring South Africa to a standstill next month.
THE NATIONAL SHUTDOWN IS PLANNED FOR THE 20 MARCH 2023
Malema said they are planning the national shutdown on 20 March.
While addressing the party’s Western Cape plenum in Cape Town on Saturday, he said his party did not need permission to embark on its planned action.
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“Fighters, the militancy and protest character of the EFF, the fearless character, the ground forces of the EFF, your determination to liberate the people of South Africa is going to be seen on 20 March, when you bring South Africa to a standstill.”
Julius Malema
PROVINCIAL DELEGATES WERE TOLD TO IDENTIFY SPECIFICS – TOWN/ CITY/ ROADS ETC
The delegates of each province were told to identify which road, shopping complex, and city they would occupy on that day.
Malema said there would be no work or school and no moving on the 20 March.
He added that the taxi association and bus operators in the Western Cape should know now.
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“South Africa must come to a standstill. We must challenge white monopoly capital and we must show them we (do) not need a permit from the Ruperts and Oppenheimers, or from the ANC and (ANC secretary-general Fikile) Mbalula, who says people must go to school and children to work,”
Malema said.
According to Malema, everything will be in place by the morning of the 20 of March.
THIS COMES AFTER THE RECENT DRAMA DURING THE SONA
“20 March starts at midnight … by the time people wake up, everything is happening.”
Malema said the EFF was a protest movement, and that was what they did in Parliament.
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Last week Thursday, the annual State of the Nation Address started again with EFF drama when they to Parliament being addressed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he took the institution to the Constitutional Court over the Phala Phala scandal.
EFF MPS JUMPED ON THE STAGE WITH PLACARDS
The security services stormed the chamber when the EFF MPs suddenly jumped onto the stage with placards as they were walking out of the chamber after making numerous points of order.
Malema said the problem with Ramaphosa was that he did nothing while being the country’s leader.
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THEY WERE FORCEFULLY REMOVED FROM PARLIAMENT
“I got to the stage to protect and hold a placard. They say I am a danger to the president … I was going to stand on the stage with a placard and allow Ramaphosa to speak and also speak through my placard, a silent peaceful protest,” he said.
He said the Constitution protected his right to protest, and he required nobody’s permission to get into protest action.
According to reports, Malema also told EFF members that they did not need permission for the National shutdown.
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