The confirmed list of anti-Zuma marches taking place across South Africa this Friday
Political parties and civil society groups have organised a number of marches around the country for Friday, 7 April, in demonstration against President Jacob Zuma and his decision to axe finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
While several groups, including Save South Africa, have already begun occupying key points earlier this week, other parties and organisations have issued a number of new marches, times, routes and subsequently amendments as they scramble to prepare for the protest on Friday.
A notable omission from the planned protest action including trade union Cosatu – who in an official press statement noted it was not comfortable with “selective outrage” and that when the union had previously taken to the streets “others just sat and watched”.
Zwelinzima Vavi head of the recently formed South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) also noted that the federation did not condone the mass action among fears that it was not known who had originally issued the call to action and that there was a possible third force acting as an “agent provocateur”.
You can find the confirmed list of marches detailed below.
Democratic Alliance (Johannesburg)
The Democratic Alliance has amended its planned route for its “March for Change” following reported threats of violence from the ANC’s Youth League, as well as certain branches within the ANC.
The party confirmed that changes to the route had to be made following consultations with the SAPS who confirmed that it could not offer full protection on the old route. The March for Change will now begin at the Westgate Transport Hub at 10h00 on Friday morning, and will end at Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg.
BREAKING: We call on all South Africans to join this Friday’s March for Change – @MmusiMaimanehttps://t.co/iaAuJs1Tfh #NoConfidence pic.twitter.com/5xcoXHBxHJ
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) April 3, 2017
Democratic Alliance (Durban)
Join us as we March together for South Africa! #NoConfidence #KZN pic.twitter.com/SmogxG8mCz
— DA KZN (@DA_KZN) April 4, 2017
Save South Africa (Pretoria)
(Ongoing occupation of Church Square Pretoria from Monday, 3 April)
Join us at Church square this week! We will be camping and occupying al week. join us and #occupychurchsquare pic.twitter.com/ujY3xHxhxQ
— Save South Africa (@_SaveSA) April 3, 2017
Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse – OUTA (Various)
— OUTA (@OUTASA) April 5, 2017
Multi-party day of action (Pretoria)
South Africa’s biggest opposition parties held a joint meeting on Monday, 3 April, in Johannesburg following the axing of finanance minister Gordhan. The meeting was attended by the DA (Mmusi Maimane), EFF (Godrich Gardee and Dali Mpofu), UDM (Bantu Holomisa), COPE (Mosiuoa Lekota), IFP (Mangaqa Mncwango) and ACDP (Kenneth Meshoe).
“It was agreed that as Opposition Parties, we will start the process of mobilising their structures from across the country for a National Day of Action to the Union Buildings. We are planning to have this mass action event as soon as possible,” the group said in a statement.
“We will also be engaging Civil Society formations and other Political Parties to mobilise in order to support the people’s National Day of Action to the Union Buildings, so that we are united and not fractured in our call to save our country in the short-term.”
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