EFF Calls on all South Africans to join Marikana Workers' March to Union Building on 12 September, 2013
Economic Freedom Fighters fully supports the demand by the families of the massacred workers for the state to cover their legal costs in the Marikana Commission. It is no secret that workers were killed by the ANC murderous regime police under the command of the incompetent Phiyega. It is also no secret that if workers are not fully represented by competent lawyers, the entire exercise of the commission will be pointless.
There is absolutely no justification that President Zuma and company refuse to pay for the workers when they are fully paying for the murderers who committed the terrible massacre in day light and in the name of the republic. It is the moral duty of such a state, whose police killed its citizens in full view of the world, to eliminate any obstacle, particularly financial for these murderers to be held accountable. If indeed Jacob Zuma and his government are remorseful for what happened, then it must be unforgivable that they subject these heart broken families to protest just to receive the means for justice.
The Jacob Zuma government pays for its corrupt President's legal costs that have culminated into millions of Rands (more than R30m no) of taxpayers' money to avoid him going to court - a case in point is the legal matter relating to "spy tapes". This very government spend huge amount of money to guarantee the luxurious comfort of its corrupt Jacob Zuma in the Nkadla mansion. How, in a matter of tragic mass death, with the history we have in this country, can they hesitate and even refuse to pay for legal representation of the poor families to find justice and closure for the deaths of their loved ones.
It musts be noted that the killing of these workers removed bread on the table of these families, the least the state can do is to ease the burden of them worrying about legal costs. The public's trust in the police and in the genuineness of the government about what happened in Marikana hangs on the success and credibility of the commission. Thus, not to fund the families of workers is a dent on the reputation of Jacob Zuma's government.
We have always warned that there is something deadly wrong with the government of Jacob Zuma. It is emptied of all moral standing. If anything, the refusal to pay these costs is demonstration that they feel no compassion for the families of the massacred workers.
The EFF calls on all South Africans, and the fighters in general, to join in on the march to Union Building in Pretoria (On Thursday) in demand for Jacob Zuma and his company to use our tax money and pay for the legal costs of the workers so that justice can be established and the police held accountable. It is not their money, and it is in the public interest that they do this as the police killed in the republic's name.
The March will happen under the following details:
Date; 12 September, 2013
Time: Assemble at 10am
Venue: Caledonian Stadium - Conner Pretorius Drive and Nelson Mandela Drive
Social Media Hash-tag: #MarikanaMarchSep12
Statement issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, September 10 2013
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