Cape Town - Members of the EFF have vowed to continue targeting symbols of apartheid after a group “necklaced” a war memorial statue in Uitenhage this week.
Their declaration to continue comes two weeks after EFF leader Julius Malema urged South Africans to tear down symbols which reminded them of apartheid, including the statue of former prime minister Louis Botha outside Parliament.
Yesterday, a day after three EFF members placed a tyre around a war memorial statue in Uitenhage’s Market Square and set it alight.
Nazier Paulsen, a member of the party’s central command team, warned: “If the government wants to preserve these statues, then they’d better act fast. This is the first of many.”
Paulsen, a former convener of the EFF in the Western Cape, said he could not divulge the plans to target other statues.
Yesterday Eastern Cape police spokesman Basil Seekoei said no arrests had been made.
A malicious damage to property case was being investigated. - Weekend Argus