EFF WELCOMES THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE ANN7 SATY AWARDS AS A SIGN THAT SOUTH AFRICANS ARE REJECTING THE GUPTA CRIMINAL SYNDICATE

08 November, 2016

The EFF welcomes the postponement of the ANN 7 SATY awards as a sign that South Africans are rejecting the Gupta Criminal Syndicate. We welcome this as a manifestation of the response to the EFF call for South Africans to boycott the awards, thus rendering the ceremony unattainable. All individuals who were invited and withdrew their participation have chosen to put the interests of the country first and in the process, demonstrated their dignity and self worth.

The EFF further calls for more boycotts on all that is associated with the Guptas; we must all stop going to the Gupta owned ANN7 TV programs and taking interviews from The New Age. This family has abused the generosity of the South African spirit, humiliated our hospitality simply because they have bought politicians of the ANC and are in business with Jacob Zuma. They have corrupted the only concrete democratic gain that the struggle for liberation has placed in the hands of black people, which is the state. Moreover, they have arrogated themselves the powers to appoint cabinet ministers and board members of parastatals like Eskom. 

The importance of such a boycott is to make sure that we expose the abnormality of the Gupta criminal and kleptocratic syndicate. Association with any of their businesses, in particular media houses, will indirectly or directly normalise their criminal and kleptocratic pursuits.

Statement issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, 8 November 2016