COPE to lead march ahead of no confidence vote in Parliament

As South Africa readies itself for Wednesdays tabling of the vote of no confidence in President Zuma in Parliament on Tuesday,  COPE has announced that the party will lead a march at noon in Cape Town – just before the vote will take place.

COPE said in a statement that ‘today every South African is suffering, except for those who took millions and billions from us in the last eight years. Today, except for every Minister who lives large at the expense of the taxpayers and who freely uses state funds to hire protection for her children or fly her family and friends to Cape Town and fund other personal expenses, people are suffering, businesses are suffering, institutions are suffering and the country as a whole is suffering. We have each been robbed in a very big way and in broad daylight too. It is that which hurts so much.’

“Business confidence is down. Consumer confidence is down. Our trust in government is down.

“To save the future for ourselves and our children we need to stand together. We need to take Nelson Mandela’s words to heart when he said, “If the ANC does to you what the apartheid regime did, you must do to the ANC what you did to the National Party”. That is what we now need to do. The hour for action has arrived.

“A better tomorrow requires our action and our commitment now. We must take back our country because our country expects that of us. We must make its resources work for us and not the president’s family and his greedy cronies. We must work to bring to justice all who participated in the grand theft of our nation’s resources and all who were involved in the wholesale looting of our scarce resources. Our money must be for ourselves and our country.”

money would have been used for the benefit of all in our country.”