(14 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town – 14 June 2024
1. Protesters on bridge over national highway
2. Protesters chanting and holding posters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Claasen, Cape Town councillor for African Restoration Alliance:
"We are making our voices known today and we’ve done it the previous two weeks because not just ARA but the people of Cape Town, the people of South Africa is not happy with the outcome of the election and I’ll tell you why. There was just too much irregularities that we’ve experienced we’ve said it before, ballot papers that went missing, ballot papers that came under the arms of presiding officers.”
4. Pan of protesters next to N2 highway
5. Protesters on bridge over N2 highway with Table Mountain in background
6. Mid of MK Party supporters with banner with face of party leader Jacob Zuma
7. Wide of MK Party members with party banner and Table Mountain in background
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Faizel Moosa, uMkhonto weSizwe Party Western Cape Coordinator:
"We certainly are advocating peace and we’ve been advocating that since the beginning. President Zuma was very clear no MK member is going to start burning things and destroying things and that’s how disciplined we were even though some of the, the judgements were rather dubious and we feel you know we’ve been targeted as an organisation but still we remain resolute, we remain peaceful and we are engaging all avenues possible in the legal system to try and fight this battle.”
9. Riot police warning protesters to stay off highway
10. Protesters on bridge over N2 highway with MK Party banner
STORYLINE:
A group of political parties including South Africa former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), The African Restoration Alliance (ARA), and Allied Movement for Change expressed their discontent with May’s elections on Friday and alleged fraud.
“We are making our voices known today and we’ve done it the previous two weeks because not just ARA but the people of Cape Town, the people of South Africa is not happy with the outcome of the election,” said Grant Claasen, Cape Town councillor for African Restoration Alliance.
All members of the National Assembly will be sworn in with the exception of MK Party members at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
The Constitutional Court has dismissed MK’s application to interdict the swearing in of members of parliament.
On Friday the leader of South Africa’s second-biggest party has said it will back Cyril Ramaphosa for President – almost guaranteeing he will be elected for a second term.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen said his party has now formally signed a coalition agreement with Mr Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), and part of the agreement stipulates that Mr Ramaphosa will be President.
AP video by: Wesley Fester
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