{"id":168897,"date":"2017-04-06T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=168897"},"modified":"2017-04-06T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:23:50","slug":"every-march-taking-place-around-south-africa-on-friday-and-what-it-needs-to-be-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/168897\/every-march-taking-place-around-south-africa-on-friday-and-what-it-needs-to-be-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Every anti-Zuma march taking place around South Africa on Friday – and what it needs to be successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesting on 7 April will make little difference unless South Africans are able to show up en masse, warns\u00a0Nomura’s Peter Attard Montalto.<\/p>\n

Numerous marches and events are set to take place around the country on Friday, mainly calling for president Jacob Zuma to step down following his latest Cabinet reshuffle which included the axing of finance minister, Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n

“We think the role of civil society organisations are overplayed given limited impact on the internal workings of the ANC. Ultimately the reversal that was Nene-gate was caused by a market shock that fed through to the ANC via business leaders connected to the party,” Attard Montalto said in a report.<\/p>\n

“That market shock has not happened really this time to such a degree. Indeed, much of the protest action appears small, though the real test will be this Friday\u2019s marches to the Union Buildings.”<\/p>\n

However Attard Montalto and other analysts believe that the protests could bring about a change if they reach what is known as the “Brazil level”. This is in reference to the number of protesters (approximately 500,000) that took to the streets protest against\u00a0government in Brazil.<\/p>\n

He also stressed the importance of differentiating between the protest movements which are party political, and ones outside the ANC, and are therefore more independent.<\/p>\n

“SaveSA, for instance, should more appropriately be termed \u2018Save the ANC\u2019 and is a factional movement within the ANC – we believe that looks as its main goal not to indeed save the country but to save the party from electoral defeat in the long run.”<\/p>\n

“We struggle to find Black-led, non-party political, truly independent protest movements in South Africa that are of any decent size. This is partly, again, why we see the chances of Zumxit as contained. We believe that protest movements that are factional within the ANC can too easily be dismissed by the Zuma faction within the ANC,” Attard Montalto said.<\/p>\n

Protest action was threatened against president Zuma when he removed former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in 2015, with the threat being that 1 million South Africans would take to the streets.<\/p>\n

Barely 100,000 turned up. According to Attard Montalto, 1 million protesters in the streets would cause the ANC to take notice, and could change forecasts for South Africa’s political year ahead.<\/p>\n

BusinessTech has updated the\u00a0list<\/a> of marches taking place around the country on 7 April.
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Organisations that have pledged support for the protest action are Save South Africa, Corruption Watch, Treatment Action Campaign, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, Lawyers for Human Rights, Section27, Johannesburg Against Injustice and the National Religious Leaders\u2019 Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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