JMPD must respect the right to protest: we won’t pay ‘protest fees’!
On Saturday 28 October, R2K Gauteng will lead a march to the Johannesburg Metro Police Department over continued infringements on the right to protest by the JMPD. These infringements are undermining the constitutional rights of communities across Johannesburg to exercise their basic right to protest.
- We are demanding a scrapping of JMPD’s ‘planning fees’ that protest organisers are expected to pay
- JMPD and City of Joburg must stop messing with the right to protest.
We know that communities in Joburg Metro are not the only ones facing these restrictions. In many municipalities across SA we see officials in small offices inventing unconstitutional reasons to undermine our right to protest and stop us from exercising our voice in this democracy. We call on all across the country who experience these kinds of abuses to join us in saying NO. We demand the right to protest!
For more information please contact:
General Moyo (R2K Gauteng coordinator): 071 529 0675
Rendani Muvhango (R2K Gauteng activist): 074 055 5454
Date: Saturday 28 October 2017
Time: 11am to 1pm
Assembly point: March will start at 11am from Westgate Taxi Rank, proceed to JMPD Headquarters (cnr Loveday St & Village Rd). A memorandum of grievances on the right to protest will be handed over to JMPD officials at 12.30pm.
For background, see GroundUp.org.za, ‘When protesters have to teach police the law’, 18 June 2015.
