The government had reversed its ban on a Social Movements Indaba march from Alexandra township to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Sandton on Saturday, the SMI said in a statement on Wednesday.
The organisation said government had ”backed down from its consistent refusal to allow the SMI to march…
”We will march on the WSSD with our principles and our message intact.”
The Gauteng branch of the African National Congress on Wednesday condemned the SMI for wanting to stage the march.
”We don’t want to mix with them (the SMI). Let them organise their own march and the police will deal with them,” Gauteng ANC spokesman Hope Papo told Sapa.
”They are against the summit and we are going to hand over a memorandum,” he said.
Papo said the ANC, the SA Communist Party, the Congress of SA Trade Unions would on Saturday form part of the march in support of civil society organisations from Nasrec.
”The people from the social indaba are jumping in the bandwagon of the people from Nasrec. They don’t support the Nasrec meeting,” he said. – Sapa