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National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:07pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Thousands of protesters marched through South Africa's cities on Monday, calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign over the lack of jobs and electricity, as security forces guarded malls and streets to prevent any violence and looting. South Africans are furious about failures of the governing African National Congress (ANC) to deliver services and create jobs - a third of South Africans are out of work. Analysts expect it to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time in three decades in national elections next year. Meanwhile, state electricity utility Eskom is implementing the worst rolling blackouts on record, leaving households in the dark for up to 10 hours a day. "We are not going to do anything. We just walk nicely and raise our concerns," protest leader Julius Malema, head of the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), said in front of a large crowd gathered at Church Square in Pretoria's city centre before marching to the president's office. The EFF party, whose supporters are mainly poor Black South Africans who feel marginalised since the ANC ended white minority rule in 1994, called for a national shutdown - a move which was successful to the extent that many businesses were closed and workers stayed away for lack of transport. 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by BOLATINUBU01: 7:11pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
But if na lagos, igbos go don dey burn BRT 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:12pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Pretoria, Tshwane (capital city)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:17pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Johannesburg (largest city and economic hub)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by magoo10(m): 7:19pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
If it is here soldiers will open life bullets on the protesters. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:24pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Sandton, Johannesburg (the richest square mile in Africa)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by Africblogng: 7:28pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
It's about time time in Africa |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by Billionaire2: 7:31pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
south african cities are too beautiful for the kind of retards that populate them. anyways, nigerians in that country should be on alert… this kind of protest is usually followed by xenophobic attacks… 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by gaby(m): 7:40pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
When are we going to make such move bigger than the #EndSars movement in ZNIGERIA? |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by godliman: 7:42pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
BOLATINUBU01:Not only Igbo, na Idoma 1 Like |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:43pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Cape Town (second richest city in SA)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:46pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Durban (SA's third largest city)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 7:52pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Gqeberha, Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape)
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by Robinmido(m): 7:56pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Do you think your comments will hurt an igbo person? Think again better channel your energy into a good thing that will help your life rather than churning out hateful comments. BOLATINUBU01: 7 Likes |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by mysticwarrior(m): 8:11pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Am surprise they didn't blame Nigerians for unemployment. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by BOLATINUBU01: 8:19pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Robinmido:I doing better than anyone in your generation, do stop wailing 1 Like |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 8:20pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Airports and roads affected 1 Like
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by IronGalaxy: 8:44pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
WannaHowzit:This march kinda failed to gain traction, it was quiet where I was. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by IronGalaxy: 8:45pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
mysticwarrior:You make everything that happens in SA about Nigerians, get over yourself asseblief, you ain't all that. we got bigger fishes to fry |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 8:50pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
IronGalaxy: Maybe you live in a generally quiet place IG 🤭 In the CBDs it was not business as usual, I was in JHB. But I think it's coz of all the talk about violence leading up to the shutdown. People were scared. Fact that the general public didn't necessarily join the EFF marches means they failed dismally - in my opinion. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by IronGalaxy: 8:54pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
WannaHowzit:Word. isn't it strange though we haven't had load-shedding? Don't you think this is proof the power utility is sabotaged? |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 9:05pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
IronGalaxy: I think the problems are real - the power stations are over 30 years old. The new ones and their faults maybe we can argue 🤷🏾♂️ I think they went for what Zuma was doing - overstretching the grid and using more expensive diesel for populist reasons. He actually destroyed these facilities by doing that - people have forgotten. But what happened this weekend at Eskom was definitely a deliberate and populist move. ANC thought you'd be happier sitting through a lockdown that was atleast lit 24 hrs. 1 Like |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 10:33pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Julius Malema lauds SA for peaceful national shutdown
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Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by omniwater: 11:23pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
The ipob (obidients) plans to organise "end SARS 2" has failed now as the majority of Yoruba youths they planned to use as pawns to shut down the country have withdrawn their supports for the protest. Yoruba youth eyes have opened to the facts that during end sars 1 protests, many Yoruba public properties were targeted and destroyed. Besides, there wouldn't be an "end sars 2" if Atiku had won the presidential election. They also know that obi can not win that election. Their hatred for anything Yoruba is unparalleled. We have seen through their shenanigans. That is why Igbos (obidients) both home and abroad are currently crying because their plans has failed. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by kollinzgee(m): 11:29pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
Mc oluomo and his thugs will not let this happen in Nigeria . |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by PARADIZEPRIEST: 12:38am On Mar 21, 2023 |
Common 10hours a day blackout you people are protesting. IN NIGERIA SOME PEOPLE DONT HAVE ELeTRICITY FOR 10DAYS,20DAYS,30DAYS MONTHS AND YEARS and they are smiling Is not enough to make Remoposa resign. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by mysticwarrior(m): 3:14am On Mar 21, 2023 |
IronGalaxy:South Africans have accused Nigerians of taking their Jobs In the past and you and I know that this is true. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by Watcharena: 3:53am On Mar 21, 2023 |
magoo10:Did you see the protesters burning or destroying anything in those pictures |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by IronGalaxy: 10:31am On Mar 21, 2023 |
mysticwarrior:Like I said, Stop forcing yourselves on everything that happens in SA, not everything's about you |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by mysticwarrior(m): 11:44am On Mar 21, 2023 |
IronGalaxy:Bring out facts to prove my point wrong and stop shifting the goalpost |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by WannaHowzit(m): 12:07pm On Mar 21, 2023 |
mysticwarrior: Biscuitcarrier go poop in Tinubu's diapers 💩 and not in my beautiful thread abeg. |
Re: National Shutdown in SA Leaves Streets Empty on Monday (PICS) by mysticwarrior(m): 12:17pm On Mar 21, 2023 |
WannaHowzit:As e dey pain them e dey sweet us, and as dey sweet us e dey pain them. Tmksouth It's obvious you were one of the protesters, and that gave more credit to your post as an eyewitness reporter. Please with no offense directed tell me the truth, are you currently unemployed? |
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