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Covid-19: Ramaphosa allows Oppenheimers to break lockdown rules

Nicky and Jonathan Oppenheimer

Black First Land First (BLF) is angered by the decision of the Ramaphosa government to allow Anglo American to force workers to work during the national lockdown.

Anglo American is allowed to break the lockdown rules and endanger thousands of black workers yet the black youth are tracked down by the intelligence and arrested for violating those rules.

BLF notes that Anglo American is owned by the Oppenheimers who are also one of the main sponsors of the CR17 campaign. They donated R10 million to that campaign to help Ramaphosa win the African National Congress (ANC) conference in Nasrec in December 2017.

Anglo American in the Northern Cape doesn’t provide an essential service. It must be shut down now!

BLF notes reports that “Anglo American has summoned mineworkers back to work at the Sishen iron ore mine in the Northern Cape after getting approval from the minister of mineral resources and energy.” This is evil!

The Ramaphosa government is allowing the police to kill black people saying that they are enforcing the lockdown but allows white monopoly capital to break the lockdown rules for profits.

It is unacceptable and must not be tolerated.

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

1 April 2020

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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