Supporters of jailed former president Jacob Zuma say they will continue to demonstrate until he is freed.
Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association spokesperson Carl Niehaus said the free Jacob Zuma campaign would continue to “mobilise the broad base of a huge number of people” in SA.Supporters of jailed former president Jacob Zuma will continue to demonstrate until he is freed, suspended ANC member and theSpeaking at an online news conference hosted by
“But we will not cease and stop until President Zuma is released,” he said, adding that this needed to happen “urgently”. Campaign members gave the government 14 days to respond to the issues which it said had sparked the ongoing civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.“We cannot have 15m South Africans who are not working,” he said. “This needs to be addressed now.”
In response to allegations made by deputy minister of state security Zizi Kodwa on Radio 702 on Thursday that the protests and looting were orchestrated, with much blame falling directly on the campaign for Zuma's release, Niehaus said this was a “well-known [apartheid-era] Stratcom tactic” to find a scapegoat.
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