The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are rejecting the deployment of the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) across the country, ahead of Monday’s national shutdown.
The party says “dictator” President Cyril Ramaphosa has deployed 3 474 members of the SANDF to quell peaceful protests against the failed government and undermine calls for him to step down.
“This action shows the bloodthirsty nature of the current government and the ruling party’s intolerance to protest and opposition. South Africa has degenerated into a military state, and the deployment of the army to reduce the constitutional right to protest means that we have returned to the dark days of apartheid,” said the party said in a statement on Sunday afternoon.
Apartheid tactics
The EFF says the current deployment of the army and law enforcement agencies to kill exceeds the apartheid regime of the 1980s during the state of emergency, saying this means Ramaphosa has declared war on South Africans.
“Scenes of military personnel descending on South African cities, police searching residents’ homes and cars without warrants or just cause, and closing tire shops reveal a paranoid government capable of violating human rights,” EFF said. charged.
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The international community should pay attention to South Africa during Monday’s shutdown, the party said, because the SA government is preparing itself to carry out a massacre in defense of its corrupt president.
“The EFF is calling on the people of South Africa to come out in numbers and join the national shutdown. There must be no intimidation to prosper and we must reject tyranny [Ramaphosa]in the same way we fought against the apartheid government,” the EFF added.
Operation Prosper
Parliament announced on Sunday that Ramaphosa had deployed 3 474 members of the SA National Defense Force (SANDF) to work alongside police officers to maintain law and order during the EFF’s nationwide shutdown on Monday.
Parliament said the president briefed speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and provincial National Council chairman Amos Masondo on the deployment of the SANDF to fight crime and maintain law and order during the shutdown.
According to spokesperson Moloto Mothapo, the deployment is in line with Section 201(2) (a) of the South African Constitution of 1996 and Section 19 of the Defense Act 2002 and will cost the taxpayer a total of R166 562 058.
The deployment was carried out in Operation Prosper.
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