The Save South Africa campaign will host a People’s Assembly on the \u201creal\u201d State of the Nation in Cape Town on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The event will be held in St George’s Cathedral, opposite Parliament, starting at 10:00.<\/p>\n
Save SA convener Sipho Pityana said last week that the event is designed to allow South Africans to share their grievances about the current ANC government.<\/p>\n
In its invite, the campaign listed six objectives in holding the alternative address a day before President Jacob Zuma is due to open Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The campaign hopes to get a diverse crowd of people from all sectors of civil society to demand Zuma\u2019s resignation, increase political accountability, and to stop the nuclear energy deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real SONA is a dynamic and vibrant discussion that highlights the real issues facing South Africa, as well as the solutions to our crisis,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome armed with your ideas for the real SONA and pin them to our SONA wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The official SONA will deny the real problems facing South Africans, including service delivery, the economy, political unrest, and corruption, the campaign said.<\/p>\n
It hoped to cement a partnership with the Energy Justice campaign to create wider awareness of the pending nuclear energy deal and lay a foundation for a national campaign to halt the nuclear deal this year. It called it \u201cZuma\u2019s greatest tender grab\u201d.<\/p>\n
Save SA urged South Africans to attend the event, to sign the \u201cPeople’s Motion of No Confidence\u201d online and to write to or contact their MPs about the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n
It said it would publish the list of all MPs and their contact details on its website.<\/p>\n