Kings and traditional leaders from various tribal houses, united under the banner Freedom in South Africa march in the Pretoria CBD to hand over a memorandum of demands at the Union Buildings on Friday.
The march started at Kgosi Mampuru Street and Madiba Street.
They were holding placards, wearing traditional attire, singing traditional songs and revolutionary songs and beating the drums to the Union Buildings.
The march was labeled as historic, aims to reclaim South Africa, as leaders express concern over decades of government mismanagement and oppression.
They are calling for a better life for the South African and are calling on government to restore social grants t to tribal and community Centers, so the poor can kick tart small businesses.
The march was led by FISA president Kgoshi General Nthai Monnye Malatji and was supported by Prince Joshua Lekula of Bataung Babaropodi kingdom, Chief Papi Malele of madibeng kingdom and supported by military veterans, the Kings, traditional leaders from various communities and MKYL.
They hand over a memorandum of demand to the office of the president Vincent Ngcbonwane who promises to response.
When the traditional leaders get to Union Buildings, they appease the ancestors and talked to them.
Speaking to Freedom In South Africa (FISA) president Kgoshi General Nthai Monnye Malatji told the Tshwane Talks that this is not the first time they come to Union Buildings and submitted a memorandum.
We are expressing our dissatisfaction about how the government of ANC is running the country and how they have ruined the country.
“We came here 3 times submitting memorandum, but the sad part is we never got a response from all the memorandum, and we also wrote letters to the president, and we never got any response,” said Freedom In South Africa (FISA) president Kgoshi General Nthai Monnye Malatji.
Malatji said for the past 30 years we looked up to the government for freedom but in return we were subjected to manipulation, exploitation, oppression, harassment, abuse, destruction, betrayal, rejection, consumerism and prejudice.
“We have lots of demand and we want politicians to be removed from the mining sector and ensure mining communities benefit from the mineral wealth.
We want a budget allocation of 4 to 8 million rand annually to each community so they can implement quick development projects.
Today we lost land, minerals, our loved one, the livestock’s, jobs, business, culture, identity and dignity.
We want to be pay reparation fees to all black people for suffering injustice over 300 years,” Malatji speaking in broken heart.
“We demand appeals to the government to bring back the death penalty for murderers, rapists and hard-core criminals.
The government must hand over kingdoms to implement constitutional monarchy,” he said.
“We are as MKYL we are here to support the plight of the traditional leaders.
We will be with our traditional leaders, and we will show them respect and we don’t talk politics only and, in our manifesto is there too, we want the traditional leaders to be included in everything.
They must have a right to make a decision in the people of South Africa,” MKYL deputy president Thapelo Maisha.
“We are here on one thing, our land was taken away by apartheid regime in 1913 law, it is time that our traditional leaders to claim back their land as it is rightfully theirs,” said national spokesperson of king Kikwe Dikitlane kingdom Prince Joshua Lekula.
Vincent Ngcbonwane from the office of the president said he was sent to get their memorandum and we will response to it, and we will write to Kgoshi and we will response to all his questions in
less than 7 days.