Black First Land First – Student Movement (BLF-SM) leaders, Comrades Thobani Zikalala and Kemiso Ntoba as well as four learners from the George Campbell School of Technology were today arrested by the police and are currently being held at the Durban Central Police Station. BLF-SM calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
BLF-SM led by Zikalala and Ntoba joined the rest of the study body, at the George Campbell School of Technology, in solidarity to end racism. To this end they were arrested while participating in direct protest action against the racism employed by white staff and educators at the campus.
George Campbell School of Technology was in a process of academic shutdown today and in this context learners were being prohibited from executing their basic right to protest. The school Principal issued a threatening order to learners not to participate in protest action – he thus disrupted the legitimate fight to end racism!
BLF-SM leaders persisted in principled action – siding with the black oppressed and assisting students to exercise their basic right to end racism. The police unleashed their brutality via the use of excessive force and intimidation and arrested the two student leaders in the process.
BLF-SM stands with the learners of George Campbell School of Technology and shall continue the fight side by side with them to facilitate an end to racism by any means necessary.
BLF-SM warns that no amount of intimidation, senseless arrests, imprisonment and brutality can stop the fight to end racism.
We remain committed to fighting racism in every corner of society that it manifests in. We further call on the black majority to heed the clarion call to take back the land to end racism now!
Land Or Death
27 August 2017
Issued by the Black First Land First – Student Movement p, University of KwaZulu Natal
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Gabriel Dube
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