EFF members embark on peaceful protest action
Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Kagiso Branch demanded that Mogale City Local Municipality give in to their demands.
About 100 Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) members from Kagiso embarked on a peaceful protest to Krugersdorp Town Hall today 28 January to deliver their memorandum of grievances to the management of Mogale City Local Municipality.
With placards reading “We demand our RDP houses” and “Mogale City is failing us” the members walked the streets from Kagiso to reach the closed gates of the City Hall.
There the Kagiso Branch of the EFF, its members and the national spokesperson Patrick Sindane demanded that the municipality give in to their demands as they are tired of waiting for nonexistent service delivery.
“We hope to build a strong relationship with the municipality and hope that we can work together in dealing with people who don’t belong [in the municipality],” says Sindane.
“In your offices you have people who don’t belong in this municipality – they belong in jail and we are here to help you to clear out the criminals.”
He says that they want to help the municipality to identify the criminals who steal from the poor and want to get them arrested.
The Executive Mayor Koketso Calvin Seerane was nowhere to be seen and therefore was unable to address the crowd.
Instead David Letsie, a member of the Mogale City Mayoral Committee told the crowd that the municipality will be able to respond to their queries in a few days, but this was not the answer that the members were looking for.
The coordinator of the EFF Kagiso Branch read the memorandum, of which the municipality is said to have a copy, out loud demanding that the residents of Kagiso are given housing as promised to them.
