PHUTI MOSOMANE
THE national shutdown organized by the EFF on Monday was unsuccessful and ‘a big flop’, according to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula.
Had it been successful, it may have resulted in widespread chaos throughout South Africa, akin to last year’s political chaos in Sri Lanka which saw President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s residences occupied by protesters angered by the country’s economic collapse.
According to Mbalula, the government has effectively thwarted attempts to undermine the democratic state and incite chaos.
“We made it impossible for anarchy to prevail. Do not say violence didn’t happen. In Braamfontein, students took to the streets on Sunday midnight and started doing things. It was only in the morning that the EFF started speaking about peaceful protest,” said Mbalula.
“When a registered political party attacks the basis of our democracy, you are saying we must not respond? If the country went in
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