EFF demands action against sexual offenders during Orlando march
The memorandum will be emailed to senior officials, giving them 15 days to respond.
The EFF Youth Command organised the first march in Soweto that called for justice for a seven-year-old known as Cwecwe on April 11.
Cwecwe was allegedly raped in the Eastern Cape last October.
The march joined the national call for solidarity with the sexually violated young girl and made the voices of young people in Soweto heard.
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Residents marched from outside the 1947 restaurant in Orlando West to the Orlando Magistrate’s Court, where they submitted a memorandum of demands calling for the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) prosecutions to be reviewed. They waited outside the court for the outcome.
According to Lebogang Mothibe, the co-ordinator of Ward 27 in Diepkloof for the EFF Youth Command, they met a junior administrative staff member from the Department of Justice, who, in her capacity, was not authorised to receive the memorandum.
The memorandum will be emailed to senior officials, giving them 15 days to respond. A failure to do so will prompt the Youth Command to take further action until justice is served.
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“We can’t afford to lose hope now because if we do, it implies that this country is going down the drain.
“We must achieve this goal by any means necessary because we are the last beacon of hope for the masses in our nation.
This is a must-achieve for us because we remain the only hope for our people,” said Lwandile Ngwenze, the EFF chairperson of Ward 30 in Orlando East.
Tebogo Bila, a Diepkloof resident, said: “Cwecwe’s justice must be served. As a parent, I fear for the safety of our children. If this incident could happen at a school, it implies that our children are no longer safe because school is supposed to be one of the safest places for them.”
Mothibe added, “Next time, we will go to the Gauteng Department of Education and take our fight for young people’s rights there.”
