Incensed members of lobby group Defend SA refused to hand a prepared letter of resignation to someone they referred to as “a small boy” in the absence President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings on Friday.
Ramaphosa didn’t come out to receive their prepared letter of resignation even though they had informed his office that they will be coming to meet him and hand him the letter.
“The guy who came to receive the prepared resignation on behalf of President Ramaphosa refused to identify himself and also refused to disclose his portfolio in the Presidency’s office,” said an enthusiastic Defend SA national spokesperson Nikita Vitshima.
She said her organisation wanted nothing from Ramaphosa except for him to sign the resignation letter which Defend SA had prepared for him so that he would step down from his position as the country’s president with immediate effect.
Vitshima told Tshwane Talks that Defend SA won’t be deterred by Ramaphosa’s no show as they would come back to the Union Buildings in the near future.
The march started at Marabastad bus depot before proceeding to the Union Buildings with some of the marching women shamelessly wearing panties on their heads which they said they would throw at Ramaphosa as a sign of protest and lack of confidence in him.
Vitshima blamed all the ills and shenanigans that are happening in the country on Ramaphosa.
“We are sickened by the debilitating situation that South Africa finds itself in and we are therefore saying Cyril Ramaphosa must fall,” she fumed.
“People of South Africa are suffering, look at the unemployment rate, look at the families who go to sleep without any food to eat, look at the children who get raped, look at the scourge of the drug Nyaope and look at the illegal immigrants who are so many in the country,” said Vitshima.
“Now on top of all this, there will be an increase in Value Added Tax ( VAT) which will kick in from the 1st of May,” she said.
According to Vitshima, the increase in VAT is being implemented because President Ramaphosa has to repay money for the following debts which he used for his personal benefit and not for the benefit of South Africans:
1. R500 billion for Covid-19 relief but this is Treason because South Africans don’t know what the money was actually used for.
2. Renewable energy.
3.Just energy transition.
“The price of staple food is going to increase, and maybe Cyril Ramaphosa wants our people to die of hunger and you as president of the country you don’t pay for electricity and petrol, you don’t like the people of South Africa and another thing is that you became the country’s president through dubious means, tell us who you are because you are reporting to white monopoly capital instead of to the citizens of South Africa,” said Vitshima in reference to President Ramaphosa.
According to Vitshima, Defend SA had planned Friday’s activities as a national strike and said it was frustrating that Defend SA members couldn’t march in the Eastern Cape Province as the date of the march was changed because the office of the speaker in that province was not going to be available on Friday.
She said this means that approximately 7,3 million people of the Eastern Cape were denied their democratic right to march.
The copy of resignation letter.