ANC Youth League now stuck with pile of books it hates, and cannot burn GangsterState
A group of ANC supporters disrupted the 'Gangster State' book launch at Exclusive Books in Sandton City, 9 April 2019. Picture: Felix Dlangamandla / Netwerk24The Free State ANC Youth League is allegedly stuck with a “garage full” of copies of Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s book,… as well as apartheid-era flags, after an intervention by Luthuli House poured cold water on their plans to burn the items.
The protesters disrupted proceedings by singing loudly, displaying “Stratcom State” posters, and tearing pages out of books.The disruption was followed by an announcement that the organisation’s Youth League in Magashule’s home province planned to have a mass burning of copies on Monday. Magashule also sent out a statement, saying: “Those purporting to be ANC members and supporters disrupting book launches, burn books and intimidate authors and journalists in my name or to be revolutionary should desist, because these are actions of political intolerance, and against freedom of expression for all South Africans.”
“I have read the book, unfortunately, and it was garbage and a serious waste of my time,” said Pieterson. Although one could not make a direct link to Magashule being behind the protests, “the perpetrators were clearly operating in his interests”, he said.
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