The anti-xenophobia group’s planned march on Human Rights Day, to highlight peace and tolerance, was called off because the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department decided it was a risk to public safety.
rallying against xenophobia in South Africa, intends to approach the high court with an application to have the prohibition of its planned anti-xenophobia march overturned. The coalition’s legal representative, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa, will be completing the application on Tuesday morning.on Sunday, Dale McKinley, a spokesperson for the coalition, said that they hoped to see the hearing take place on Tuesday afternoon.
Among the other KAAX representatives present at the briefing were Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human Rights; Julekha Latib from the One Voice of All Hawkers Association; Janet Munakamwe, chairperson of the African Diaspora Workers Network; and Rabbi Sa’ar Shaked. Another reason given for the banning of the march was the threat of violence from other groups should it go ahead, McKinley said.
On 13 March, Dlamini posted a video on Instagram referencing the poster about “illegal foreigners marching against South African laws” on Human Rights Day. He claimed that the day commemorating the Sharpeville massacre was going to be turned into “foreigners’ day”. “They clearly have some support, but… we do not believe [they] have the support of the majority… of the people that live in this country,” he said. “We are the majority and… I think we must not be silenced. We cannot allow minorities and people filled with hate and division to set the agenda.”Going ahead with the march illegally would have put participants at risk of targeting and arrest by police, according to McKinley. As such, KAAX has postponed the event until 26 March 2022.
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