PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday launched a tripartite alliance campaign against racism and police brutality following the ‘heinous murder’ of George Floyd in the United States at the hands of the police.
The killing of Floyd on May 25 has triggered unprecedented protests in the United States, with curfews being imposed in cities across the country and President Donald Trump briefly evacuated to a bunker during a night of violent demonstrations.
The murder of Floyd has also sparked protests across the world with demonstrations in South Africa, Germany, United Kingdom, Latin America and the Middle East.
The ANC’s #BlackFriday anti-racism campaign, supported by the ANC’s alliance partners the SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, is meant to highlight ‘deaths by citizens at the hands of security forces’ in South Africa, which remains one of the world’s most unequal countries.
“I had said to our security forces, they
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