RE: SADTU MARCHES IN DEFENCE OF PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA

The South African Democratic Teachers Union in KwaZulu-Natal is to hold a massive protest march tomorrow in defence of President Jacob Zuma who has been under sustained attack from opposition parties in relation to his Inkandla homestead.

In its march SADTU will also call for the expulsion of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and Congress of the People (COPE) because the two parties have failed to hold elective conferences.

SADTU provincial secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi said the two parties don't deserve to be in a democratic parliament because they have failed to hold an elective conference.

"The two parties cannot be part of a democratic institution when they clearly failed to run their own affairs in a democratic manner. They must leave parliament and only come back once they have democratically elected their representatives," said Mathonsi.

He said they will also call on the Democratic Alliance (DA) to stop its planned closure of 27 schools in the Western Cape.

Mathonsi said SADTU is in possession of information that one of the former president's houses cost more than R360 million.

"We will hand-over the memorandum to Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi. We want to say to him if he will be investigating the Nkandla Presidential homestead. He must start by investigating the homes of the previous presidents and ascertain how much was spent in those as well," said Mathonsi.

The details of the march are as follows:

Date: 03 November 2012

Time: 9am

Venue: Freedom Square (previously known as Market Square) Pietermaritzburg.

Statement issued by Mbuyiseni Mathonsi, SADTU KwaZulu-Natal, November 3 2012

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