DA march to Luthuli House

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DA march to Luthuli House is more than just about Eskom crisis (Independent Online)

Some of the protesters are former ANC supporters who have defected to the DA due to the many challenges facing them.

My children, who have been unemployed for a long time, are now employed thanks to a white man who is a DA member and who made sure that my children get jobs," Simelane said. "The electricity problem is not the only problem we are facing. Mama Patricia Simelane* (not her real name) from Tembisa said she was a staunch member of the movement who even took part in ANC activities during apartheid and immediately after the 1994 elections.

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WATCH | DA march to Luthuli House (eNCA)

The DA says it's time to stop the ANC's destruction of the country's energy infrastructure and economy.

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Watch: Hundreds of DA supporters gather for load shedding march ... (Eyewitness News)

The official opposition plans to stage a demonstration outside the ANC's Luthuli House over power cuts. DA supporters gather at Mary Fitzgerald Square in ...

We have had enough of the way in which the ANC governs, and it is high time that things change," Simmers said. "If you're serious about tackling the problem, you need to go straight to the source of the problem, and Luthuli House is ground zero of the electricity crisis in South Africa. Hundreds of DA supporters have now gathered at the Mary Fitzgerald square in the Joburg CBD. JOHANNESBURG - Hundreds of Democratic Alliance (DA) supporters have gathered at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in the Johannesburg CBD. The official opposition plans to stage a demonstration outside the African National Congress (ANC)'s Luthuli House over power cuts. The official opposition plans to stage a demonstration outside the ANC's Luthuli House over power cuts.

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WATCH | ANCYL members arrive with sjamboks to 'defend' Luthuli ... (SowetanLIVE)

ANCYL chanting outside Luthuli House ready to defend the ANC headquarters against the DA's electricity crisis march to Luthuli. Image: Thulani Mbele.

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WATCH: DA marching to Luthuli House as ANC vows to 'defend ... (Jacaranda FM)

Hundreds of DA members marched to the ANC's Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday in a protest over load shedding.

"When we get there we are hoping for a very peaceful encounter with the ANC officials, where we will be handing over a set of ideas that we have to solve the energy crisis. How do you march to a political party, to take a memorandum on electricity? Do you see any power stations here? [#DAMarch]The DA leadership is in good spirits as the march makes its way to Luthuli House. The DA is accusing the ANC of destroying the country’s energy infrastructure and economy. Hundreds of DA members marched to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday in a protest over load shedding.

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ANCYL vows to stop DA from delivering memorandum to Luthuli ... (Citizen)

The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has vowed to prevent the DA from handing over a memorandum at their headquarters in Luthuli House.

“Yes we are the governing party and we have deployed comrades to oversee and preside over matters of Eskom. “We have also said we demand the immediate removal of Andre De Ruyter and this thing of saying he will leave in March is a waste of time for us, he must leave now.” [Eskom](https://www.citizen.co.za/tag/eskom/) as the minister of public enterprises. This is in the wake of the DA march to Luthuli House to deliver a memorandum of demands to the governing party in relation to the ongoing “As the youth league, we have said to our leaders ‘not a single one of them will collect and receive any memorandum because we are not Eskom’. [ANC Youth League](https://www.citizen.co.za/tag/anc-youth-league/) (ANCYL) has vowed to prevent the [Democratic Alliance](https://www.citizen.co.za/tag/democratic-alliance-da/) (DA) from handing over a memorandum at their headquarters in Luthuli House, Johannesburg, in regard to the ongoing electricity crisis.

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Message received, says DA after march to Luthuli House regarding ... (News24)

DA leader John Steenhuisen believes his party's message, that South Africans' level of tolerance towards "an ANC manufactured electricity crisis" had reached ...

"There is an unspoken rule between political parties not to infringe on another's headquarters. Despite being prevented from getting close to Luthuli House, the DA believes the ANC received its message that citizens will no longer tolerate the governing party's "manufactured electricity crisis". - The DA marched to Luthuli House to express dissatisfaction with what it calls an "ANC manufactured electricity crisis".

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DA marches to Luthuli House – 'If we want to end load shedding, we ... (Daily Maverick)

'We don't have an Eskom problem in South Africa, we have an ANC problem. That is why we have chosen to come and march on their offices and not the Eskom ...

The ANC Youth League is also planning a march to Eskom — we could have combined these grievances and directed them to the rightful headquarters, which is Eskom.” There is no political party that can wake up any day and decide to march to another political party’s headquarters.” [Matshela Koko, ](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-12-23-former-eskom-acting-ceo-matshela-koko-set-to-contest-zondo-report-findings-against-him-in-court/)who are deployees of the ANC, have greatly contributed to the power issues faced today. Now poor South Africans have to pay the price for their corruption. That is why we have chosen to come and march on their offices and not the Eskom headquarters or the Union buildings,’ said DA leader John Steenhuisen during the party’s march on Luthuli House on Wednesday. ‘We don’t have an Eskom problem in South Africa, we have an ANC problem.

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Police prevent bloodshed as DA's march to Luthuli House goes ... (TimesLIVE)

There was a heavy police presence outside Luthuli House in Johannesburg on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators, many of them DA supporters, marched to the ...

Steenhuisen's address was often drowned out by chants of ANC Youth League members. It won’t even be part of our discussions,” Mabe told journalists. If they bring their memorandum, it will end up at reception.

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DA's march on ANC's Luthuli House was the starting gun for its 2024 ... (Daily Maverick)

The DA's march to the heart of the ANC, Luthuli House, over the issue of rolling blackouts may well be the start of its campaign for next year's general ...

He is unlikely to be the only ANC figure to make this point. The DA may benefit if the ANC is seen to react extremely to any kind of provocation. In the meantime, the ANC Youth League says it’s planning to march to Eskom over rolling blackouts. For the DA, this may be about ensuring it is not seen as silent on this issue. If it can transform the election into an opportunity to “vote against load shedding”, this picture may change. It can use this to illuminate many different issues, including cadre deployment, corruption and the problems the ANC has had with basic stuff like forming a coherent energy policy. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s promise on Sunday evening to ask Eskom to “put in suspense” its power price hike shows how important this issue is to the ANC. The ANC is well aware of this, so instead of simply refuting the DA’s claim, the party’s spokesperson, Pule Mabe, has said that it was the ANC itself that pushed for the Zondo Commission, thus shining a light on the State Capture which occurred at Eskom. (It is also the ANC chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, who is taking the Zondo report on judicial review. There is strong evidence to bolster the DA’s claim. On Wednesday, members of the DA marched towards the ANC’s headquarters, Luthuli House, saying it was there the real decisions that ruined Eskom were made. That rolling blackouts are still going to be with us when voters cast their ballots is a fact that ANC leaders appear to have finally realised.

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DA march 'disrespect the ANC in its own home', says ANC Youth ... (Mail and Guardian)

Youth league members prevented the Democratic Alliance from delivering its memorandum to Luthuli House, the ANC's headquarter.

He added that the opposition party was being provocative and “the ANC will receive no memorandum from it”. In 1998, they were warned that if they didn’t build new power stations before 2007, SA would run out of electricity and that’s exactly what happened,” Mileham said. The ANC knew about the problem in 1998. Steenhuisen lamented how some ANC members have power while the rest of the country suffers. We do not know who they want to deliver the memorandum to because there’s no official of Eskom in Luthuli House.” Unemployment is the highest in the world.

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