The #FreeJacobZuma campaign outraged by the arrest of comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile and the repressive actions by an increasingly dictatorial state
26 August 2021
The #FreeJacobZuma campaign is perturbed by the continuing harassment and intimidation of concerned South Africans who are opposed to the continuing illegal political imprisonment of President Jacob Zuma.
One of the most recent cases is the arrest and court appearance in the magistrate court in Durban of comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile, who became known as one of the courageous #FeesMustFall student leaders. Comrade Khanyile has consistently and fearlessly called for the release of President Jacob Zuma. As a consequence the state pursued and relentlessly harassed him, and abused COVID-19 protocols to get him arrested and charged in order to silence his strident voice for justice for President Zuma, as well as his commitment for the implementation of Radical Economic Transformation (RET) in order to redress the deepening inequality and economic exploitation of the majority of black (especially African) South Africans.
The so-called ‘charges’ against comrade Khanyile are flimsy in the extreme. It is evident that security and legal apparatuses of the State, including the NPA and our highly compromised courts, are prepared to shamelessly abuse COVID-19 protocols in order to advance their viciously repressive agenda to silence all peaceful, legal and legitimate opposition to their oppressive political and neo-liberal imperialist economic agenda, in the service of their White Monopoly Capital (WMC) masters.
The #FreeJacobZuma campaign applaud comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile for his courageous statement from the dock, during which he uncompromisingly demanded that President Jacob Zuma must be released immediately, and protested his innocence and that he will not be intimidated by the unconstitutional repression of Freedom of Speech by the State.