Civic movement known as Re A AGA Community Projects is disgruntled by the response of car manufacturing company BMW to their demands.
On 4 September 2025 Re A Aga submitted a memorandum of demands to the management of BMW, with the hiring of local youths and the expulsion of foreigners working there being chief among their demands.
“We had given BMW 7 days to respond to our demands but they requested that the deadline be extended with another 7 days and we agreed to that, but now the extended deadline has come and gone, but we have still not heard anything from the company regarding our demands,” said dejected President of Re A Aga Community Projects Mpho Kgosana.
“Now we are here to meet with the management of BMW but they don’t want to come out of their offices and meet us, but have instead locked themselves inside their offices to avoid meeting us,” said Kgosana as he spoke to Tshwane Talks outside the premises of BMW car manufacturing company in Rosslyn on Friday.
“After we marched to the BMW offices on 4 September 2025, whereby we submitted CVs of potential employees to the company, BMW then started advertising available posts in the company as well as Corporate Social Investment opportunities therein, while ignoring the CVs that we had submitted to them during the 4 September 2025 march,” said Kgosana.
“Now we understand that BMW is playing games with us because besides ignoring the CVs that we have presented to them, they enlisted the services of a Midrand-based, white-owned company to carry out its CSI programme,” lamented Kgosana.
“The appointment of this white-owned company doesn’t address our demand regarding CSI at BMW, but instead goes against it completely, because this is a blatant entrenchment of white monopoly capitalism,” he said.
Kgosana also griped about the fact that instead of BMW management coming out to meet them, BMW decided to rope in the Akasia Police Station Commander to address them.
“By bringing in the police, BMW is trying to play hide-and-seek and we are left wondering as to whether BMW is treating us like criminals,” fumed Kgosana.
“The behaviour of BMW’s management is a clear plot to eventually label us as extortionists who want to destroy the economy, but the truth is BMW’s management is the one that that is indirectly destroying the economy and bringing about general frustration in the community,” fumed Kgosana once again.
He said what happened on 4 September during the march to BMW offices merely resembles the proverbial drop in the ocean; that a more robust march will be embarked upon by Re A Aga Community Projects next time around,” he said.
“The 4 September 2025 march to BMW was peaceful because Re A Aga wanted to establish good good relations with BMW and therefore dissuaded the marching crowd from destroying BMW’s property, but the nonchalant and regressive behaviour of BMW’s management to our demands as Re A Aga Community Projects civic movement aggravates anger within the community,” he said.
Kgosana said the selfsame white monopoly capital brought about the Marikana Massacre by involving the police in an issue that was labour-related and not criminal at all.
“White monopoly capitalism system that companies like BMW have entrenched in the last 30 years in a democratic South Africa can’t be broken in a day but we are saying we must not lose hope but unite and fight on for the sake of the next generation of South Africans,” he said.
“We have now seen the coniving, deceptive spirit embedded in companies like BMW and we must defend our country from foreigners and white monopoly capitalism,” enthused Kgosana.
From the BMW premises Kgosana and his Re A Aga entourage marched to the Moot Police Station to lay a complaint against the Station Commander of the Akasia Police Station, who allegedly interfered in a labour dispute between Re A Aga and BMW by trying to serve as a mediator between the two parties.
“We want to know if the SAPS now serves as a labour desk,?”asked Kgosana after laying the charges at the Moot Police Station against the said police station commander.