Reconciliation can wait‚ said Twitter user Lumkile Sobutyu @SLumza on Wednesday. He was among those to help get the #ZumaMustFallMarch hashtag trending in the morning ahead of protests demanding the removal of the country’s president.
The marches were organised in the wake of the political and economic turmoil following President Jacob Zuma’s apparent rogue action in firing finance minister Nhlanhla Nene.
@SLumza tweeted: “We will celebrate #ReconciliationDay after Zuma has fallen.....for now all roads lead to #ZumaMustFallMarch.”
DaGoose @TheGoose1957 expressed a similar sentiment: “#ZumaMustFallMarch Today the SA tribe will have spoken. JZ must go. ANC take note. There is a price to pay for defending Zuma!”
Expat al123herm @al123herm posted his support from the Malaysian capital‚ Kuala Lumpur: “Can’t be at the #ZumaMustFallMarch but my heart is there with all those who are!! #StrengthInNumbers #ZumaWillFall #ReconciliationDay”.
Tshepo Makgohlo @IamCubeSOUL evoked the spirit of the public holiday and appealed for tolerance: “Fellow South Africans‚ Let us not allow race dominate our common goal‚ we are here today united to take one man down #ZumaMustFallMarch”
LueWiki @Luewellyn expressed fears about a possible massacre: “Wondering if #ZumaMustFallMarch will turn into little #Marikana because ANC members won’t let it happen peacefully.”
The events at Marikana‚ following a wildcat strike at a mine owned by near Rustenburg in 2012‚ resulted in the deaths of 44 people.
The Unite Against Corruption campaign‚ which is behind the march starting on the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg‚ said it called “upon all those affected by corruption to support the demand that #ZumaMustFall‚ whether by his own hand or by the decision of the African National Congress”.
“Occupying the bridge on No Reconciliation With Corruption Day will mark an important step forward for the anti-corruption campaign. Many more steps will be needed‚” the group said.
‘We will celebrate #ReconciliationDay after Zuma has fallen’
The marches were organised in the wake of the political and economic turmoil following President Jacob Zuma’s apparent rogue action in firing finance minister Nhlanhla Nene.
@SLumza tweeted: “We will celebrate #ReconciliationDay after Zuma has fallen.....for now all roads lead to #ZumaMustFallMarch.”
DaGoose @TheGoose1957 expressed a similar sentiment: “#ZumaMustFallMarch Today the SA tribe will have spoken. JZ must go. ANC take note. There is a price to pay for defending Zuma!”
Expat al123herm @al123herm posted his support from the Malaysian capital‚ Kuala Lumpur: “Can’t be at the #ZumaMustFallMarch but my heart is there with all those who are!! #StrengthInNumbers #ZumaWillFall #ReconciliationDay”.
Tshepo Makgohlo @IamCubeSOUL evoked the spirit of the public holiday and appealed for tolerance: “Fellow South Africans‚ Let us not allow race dominate our common goal‚ we are here today united to take one man down #ZumaMustFallMarch”
LueWiki @Luewellyn expressed fears about a possible massacre: “Wondering if #ZumaMustFallMarch will turn into little #Marikana because ANC members won’t let it happen peacefully.”
The events at Marikana‚ following a wildcat strike at a mine owned by near Rustenburg in 2012‚ resulted in the deaths of 44 people.
The Unite Against Corruption campaign‚ which is behind the march starting on the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg‚ said it called “upon all those affected by corruption to support the demand that #ZumaMustFall‚ whether by his own hand or by the decision of the African National Congress”.
“Occupying the bridge on No Reconciliation With Corruption Day will mark an important step forward for the anti-corruption campaign. Many more steps will be needed‚” the group said.
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