Cape Town – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters are reportedly planning to march to billionaire businessman Johann Rupert’s house in Stellenbosch, Western Cape on Wednesday.
The action coincides with the day Jan van Riebeeck docked in Cape Town on April 6, 1652.
“The EFF will engage in a direct confrontation with Johann Rupert in order to register our disdain of the arrival of white settlers in South Africa in 1652, which is the day when the problems of Africans began,” IOL quoted the party as saying.
[Don’t Miss It] The EFF will confront the land thief, Johann Rupert in Stellenbosch.
His wealth was born on the 6th of April 1652, when his colonial ancestor arrived on our shores.
The EFF will picket and demand the return of our land at his doorstep!#EFFLandDay pic.twitter.com/9G39W033ZJ
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 1, 2022
Party leaders will lead the land march dubbed the “EFF Land Day Picket at Rupert Farms”, EWN reported, adding that they want to hand over a memorandum to Rupert.
“Three hundred and seventy years later and Africans remain landless without ownership of our natural resources and to know economic power hence the EFF marks this day with a picket at the two farms that Johann Rupert claims to own,” the report quoted spokesperson Leigh-Ann Mathys as saying.
We don’t have time for clowns attacking the weak; we take the battle where it matters the most. Ladies and gentlemen, the #LandDay.✊? pic.twitter.com/9t7ehRRATZ
— Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) April 1, 2022
Reports indicated that the Stellenbosch Municipality is aware of the ”gathering”.
The march is set to start at 09:00 on the corner of Simmons Street and Koelenhof Road.
Rupert owns the L’Ormains wine estate in Franschhoek in the Western Cape and the Leopard Creek Golf Estate on the banks of the Crocodile River and bordering the Kruger National Park near Malalane in the Nkomazi local municipality in Mpumalanga, The South African said.
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