Covid-19 lockdown – Black First Land First

Covid-19 lockdown: Ramaphosa be serious,10 000 field workers is too little

President Cyril Ramaphosa

President Ramaphosa continues with his haphazard and timid response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In his public address yesterday, Ramaphosa promised to deploy 10 000 field workers who would do door to door screening for symptoms of Covid-19. This is too little too late. What is required is mass testing! South Korea arrested the march of the virus through mass testing. The country was able to test 15 000 people a day, free of charge. This is testing not even screening.

Black First Land First (BLF) has persistently asked for bold and decisive action. Turn the 23 000 voting stations into testing stations. Bring 50 000 healthcare workers in. It can be done.

Added to these measures, give people food and provide financial relief for the informal sector.

It’s time for decisive, bold actions. Show [email protected]!

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee of (BLF NCC)
31 March 2020

Contact Details

Black First Land First Mail: [email protected]

Zanele Lwana
(BLF Deputy President)
Cell: +27 79 986 7225

Covid-19 lockdown: BLF condemns murder of two people by army and police

The reported murders of two South African citizens by the security forces is alarming. It is shocking that President Ramaphosa didn’t address nor acknowledge these deaths – one in Vosloorus, in the East Rand and another in Ravensmead, in Cape Town – at the hands of the police and army. This attitude reminds us how the Marikana massacre was handled.

We ask Ramaphosa to not get the people killed by the police and the army under the pretext of preventing us from being killed by coronavirus.

Right now the government and coronavirus are neck to neck in taking lives. As of yesterday there were three coronavirus related deaths and two deaths allegedly by the security forces.

Black First Land First (BLF) notes that the excessive force used by the security forces, including shutting down spaza shops, is aimed at driving people to buy at white monopoly capital (WMC) owned supermarkets. It’s brutality for profits.

Stop the killings for profits now!

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee of (BLF NCC)
31 March 2020

Contact Details

Black First Land First Mail: [email protected]

Zanele Lwana
(BLF Deputy President)
Cell: +27 79 986 7225