PHUTI MOSOMANE
SOUTH African businesses, spaza shops and shopping malls battened down hatches on Sunday night and streets were being cleared of material such as tyres that could be used to start fires amid fears of the outbreak of violence during the EFF-led national shutdown on Monday.
Calls on social media for protesters to hoard tyres, and march in their thousands to the Union Buildings in Pretoria and other hotspot areas have rattled authorities, who believe that the EFF’s protests are aimed at ‘Regime Change’ and unseating President Cyril Ramaphosa from power.
ANC leaders such as the party’s Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, on the other hand, urged their members and supporters on social media platforms, including WhatsApp, not to participate in a protest organized by an opposition party.
The EFF, an ultra-leftist socialist party led by a fiery political figure, Julius Malema, is demanding the resignation of Ramaphosa, who they claim, “is
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