ANC Youth League Supporters Protest Violently in Johannesburg
August 30, 2011
African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) supporters flee water cannon fire as they took to the streets in downtown Johannesburg in support of leader Julius Malema who is facing a disciplinary hearing by senior ANC leaders. Malema is charged with bringing the movement into disrepute, August 30, 2011
Violence erupted when police attempted to keep protesters behind a barrier a street block away from the ANC headquarters, known as Luthuli House. Protesters, some of them school children in uniform, threw stones, bricks and bottles and breached the police barrier. Some burned ANC T-shirts and posters of President Jacob Zuma.
ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe told the eNews Channel that those responsible were enemies of the party. “The burning of the ANC flag and the question of burning the face [poster] of the president of the ANC [Jacob Zuma], obviously when you do that you are saying to the world, 'I am not a member of the ANC, I’m the enemy of the ANC,'” he said.
Mantashe also made it plain that the youth league would have to accept responsibility for the actions of the protesters. “But if you invited your friends to be outside Luthuli House and hooligans and criminals join, you take responsibility of all [of] that crowd," he explained. "Because that crowd is your crowd, voetstoots [just as it is].”
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