Julius Malema

South African security forces say 87 people had been arrested in the last 12 hours across the country over public violence before planned protests by the ...

There have also been arrests in other provinces such as Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape. Parliament said in a statement on Sunday that the South African military would deploy 3,474 soldiers for a month until April 17 to prevent and combat crime in cooperation with the police. The arrests come before a planned protest by South Africa’s third-largest party against the country’s economic woes.

EFF leader Julius Malema is a master at media manipulation, and the lead-up to the “national shutdown” generated huge attention for a small party. But when the ...

The failed “national shutdown” was also a day of disgrace for some factions of the South African left. The paranoia that was running out of control in the lead-up to the “national shutdown” was not only a middle-class phenomenon. Political experts have been warning of an Arab Spring-like event for years, and the July riots showed that nihilism and destruction can also emerge from a crisis. In a way, it is almost surprising that, despite the massive media coverage leading up to the EFF day of action, it attracted such desultory support. In the union movement, he is widely seen as more aligned with a group of NGOs than with worker formations. After Marikana, we cannot be sanguine about the sort of language used by Police Minister Bheki Cele and others in the lead-up to the EFF’s call for a national protest. It shows an alarming decline in faith in the state, and raises the real risk of vigilante violence. The image of Malema and Carl Niehaus walking hand-in-hand in the Pretoria march would have been sickening to most South Africans. For a start, the highly militarised response of the state was disturbing. For their “national shutdown” to be successful, the EFF would have needed to mobilise tens of thousands of people in the major cities. He is now exposed as a politician who is very good at winning media attention, mediocre at winning votes and completely inept at organising real support on the ground. But when the day of reckoning came, Malema and his party suffered complete humiliation.

EFF leader Julius Malema has described his party's national shutdown as "the most successful shutdown ever in the history of struggle in South Africa", ...

"The police services are not his underwear that he can change anyhow. He [Mkwananzi] has got no such option in terms of the Constitution. Whether you are happy or frustrated, you do not, as a police commissioner, utter words that will instigate violence against your own citizens." There were no open businesses that could have been disrupted, but the police decided to fire rubber bullets and stun grenades at the peaceful, innocent students and young women," said Tambo. It can’t be the police themselves disturbing the protest that is acting outside the Constitution." You went where the soldiers are and did not back down". The EFF leaders said his party had an “appointment with the streets” but won’t be handing a memorandum to anyone.— Juniour Khumalo (@JKwritingz) "Today, there is no big mall or small mall, no factory, no school that is open today. "He said in one of the press conferences that they will now abandon the police services and will now use combat. He added that the fact that his party was able to get the protesters released within a few hours was a testament to the fact that the arrests were sinister. What makes matters worse, in Richards Bay, there is no single train that was seen. "The police are the ones who are brutal, and the protesters are being peaceful.

A Facebook post with a video allegedly showing opposition leader Julius Malema's organised 2023 national shutdown in South Africa is FALSE.

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The EFF's national shutdown on Monday ended in handshakes outside the Mahlamba Ndlopfu presidential residence in Pretoria as EFF leader Julius Malema and ...

We are not burning any property. We are not burning anyone. “We are burning our own tyres.