NEWCASTLE KZN: ‘Urgent announcement’ hints at national stay-away tomorrow
Residents are urged to prepare in the event protest action continues or intensifies.
An ‘urgent announcement’ has begun circulating among social media groups, hinting the #FreeJacobZuma campaign would continue from today (Sunday, July 11).
The unverified message reads as follows:
“We greet you and all those who sympathise with Zuma and the entire Majuba District. From [Sunday] night the meeting agreed that we will strengthen the campaign to all the Majuba districts will start at Utrecht, Dannhauser will completed through Newcastle and Madadeni entries at night.”
The message continued to say that it was expected of ‘all the people’ to inform employers in both the private and public sectors that Monday would be a national stay-away and for the sake of safety, ‘no one will go to work at all’.
Using the hashtag #FreeJacobZuma, the message stated all roads would be completely shut down and an appeal was made for ‘everyone to stay at home’.
“We will never rest [until] Zuma returns. We appeal to all people to buy enough essential needs by tomorrow… The struggle continues. The sadness is facing the black people. Let’s soldier on. Aluta continua… Amandla,” the message concludes.
A journalist for Caxton in Northern KZN revealed that according to sources, protest action took place on Friday night on the N11 in the vicinity of Waterside. Another protest was said to have taken place in Skobaren (Skoparen) near Dannhauser.
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