- The DA marched to Luthuli House to express their discontent with what it calls an “ANC-manufactured electricity crisis”.
- The prosecutor says the country has reached a breaking point.
- The ANC Youth League insisted that none of its leaders would accept a memo from the DA.
Despite being prevented from approaching Luthuli House, the DA believes the ANC received the message that citizens will no longer tolerate the ruling party’s “manufactured electricity crisis”.
DA leader John Steenhuisen believes his party’s message, that South Africans’ level of tolerance for “an ANC-manufactured electricity crisis” had reached breaking point, was heard loud and clear by the ruling party. .
“Though they prevent us from getting close to their [Luthuli House]We continue to believe that the message repeated by the majority of South Africans that enough is enough has been heard by the ANC,” Steenhuisen said.
“The country doesn’t have an Eskom problem, nor does it have a South African National Energy Regulator problem, but what it does have is an ANC problem; that’s why we’re here and we don’t waste time at Union Buildings or [Eskom] Megawatt Park, we are getting right to the source of the problem.”
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A large crowd of ANC Youth League (ANCYL) members, carrying all kinds of weapons including sjamboks, sticks and stones, denied the prosecutor access to the ANC headquarters.
As a result, law enforcement officials advised the district attorney to assemble in the library gardens adjacent to ANC headquarters.
Dozens of DA supporters march to Luthuli House on Wednesday to protest SA’s energy crisis.
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Police used fences to cordon off the area, while the district attorney had hired private security to make sure there were no fights.
The ANCYL insisted that it would not allow its leadership to accept a memorandum from any opposition party.
Earlier, ANCYL national task force member Tlangi Mogale said they had been mandated to defend the ANC headquarters.
“If the DA wants to raise issues related to electricity, they should direct them to Eskom’s headquarters.
ANC supporters gathered outside Luthuli House as DA supporters marched.
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“There is an unspoken rule between political parties not to trespass on another’s headquarters. The DA must keep a 100 meter radius away from Luthuli House, and we know they hired black people for R150 each and will use them as human shields. , so we can’t be violent with our own people,” Mogale said.
