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Cosas defends Zuma march, calls for voting age to be lowered to 7

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWdyPlGhbvstKT5-8OP9zXs_nOn2xPN0F_zqYAJK25kzJIjsXsF6vo0Op1dmPGY6pDkqyDApbwM9afoYC3C57SaT_3gV5vadUi38MzVuYd3eFunyMfrrC9Ffu93ifEJnXNMMtLYFo2uA/s1600-h/SABLACKCHILDRENPROTEST.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238864613763207922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWdyPlGhbvstKT5-8OP9zXs_nOn2xPN0F_zqYAJK25kzJIjsXsF6vo0Op1dmPGY6pDkqyDApbwM9afoYC3C57SaT_3gV5vadUi38MzVuYd3eFunyMfrrC9Ffu93ifEJnXNMMtLYFo2uA/s400/SABLACKCHILDRENPROTEST.bmp" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>JOHANNESBURG. The Congress of South African Students has defended last week's action in which it forced schoolchildren to leave their classes and march in support of Jacob Zuma, saying that education was no longer a necessity in South Africa. "Many of us don't have a secondary education," said a Cosas spokesman, "and it hasn't hurt our chances of getting high-paying jobs in Government." Hundreds of schoolchildren were rounded up by Cosas in township schools around Johannesburg and taken by bus and train to the city centre where they protested Zuma's innocence by sucking lollipops, braiding each others' hair, and writing inspirational messages about Beyonce Knowles in TipEx on their blazers. Spokesman Facebrick Ndlovu dismissed criticisms that the march should have taken place on a Saturday instead of a school day, and also that Cosas was squandering taxpayers' money. "I have personally been told by many of our child cadres that they felt the march was a success largely because it happened on a school day," he said. "In fact they have demanded that Cosas stage a similar march every Friday, and perhaps some Thursdays as well, in order to fully enflame their patriotic zeal." He added that the pupils had also asked for "donuts, maybe a DJ, and a jumping castle, also to increase their awareness of the injustice facing Comrade Zuma". "As for the issue of the funds we used, we will not apologize. The people who pay tax are mostly those who have passed Matric, and clearly this is not our demographic. "Nobody even vaguely connected with Cosas has passed Matric, or come close on a second or third attempt, and we are determined to uphold those traditions in the coming years." He conceded that most of the children had not known why they had left their schools or what the march was about, but he denied that disrupting their exam preparation was helping to produce a generation of uncritical voting fodder. "Even if I knew what a fodder was, I would deny this," said Ndlovu. "We are simply helping nurture and develop new skills that are in desperately short supply in this country." He said that these skills included "voting for Msholozi and writing protest manifestos in TipEx on the doors of public toilets". Meanwhile Cosas has called on the government to lower the voting age to 7. National Chairperson Einstein Sodwana said that children needed to "have the burden of education lifted from them so that they can be free to fully engage in the revolution". "If our Grade One's can vote, why expend resources on controversial and damaging activities like teaching them how to read or do sums? "In our view we need a much more nurturing education system for our little ones, whereby all they do at school is Show And Tell. "We show them a picture of Msholozi, and tell them to vote for him." source: <a href="http://www.hayibo.com/">http://www.hayibo.com/</a>

Cosas defends Zuma march, calls for voting age to be lowered to 7

JOHANNESBURG. The Congress of South African Students has defended last week's action in which it forced schoolchildren to leave their cl...

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Pupils 'march for Zuma'

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBWEI5e2I-69QE2pMP70DoVvKgWes7MGz8YhZcYvlN7ApUvl_FDyCgzzBUYCCnQVdNkfUmvb7SGZYmNvlQ1BPqLdjl5WPVP3yLFkT2TDMawSMJVXi_G4kSuGZCH0_pgUc_0b0uiMAInM/s1600-h/massmarch.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237337744802205746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBWEI5e2I-69QE2pMP70DoVvKgWes7MGz8YhZcYvlN7ApUvl_FDyCgzzBUYCCnQVdNkfUmvb7SGZYmNvlQ1BPqLdjl5WPVP3yLFkT2TDMawSMJVXi_G4kSuGZCH0_pgUc_0b0uiMAInM/s400/massmarch.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>Mass marches have been growing in size, spread country wide and their causes have become more and more trivial (food prices, fuel prices, etc). They arrange these marches with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators for seemingly insignificant causes. What the hell is going on? It is time keep a close eye on what the black masses are doing... Take another look at the picture in this post.... a so called "Peaceful" march??? Johannesburg - Hundreds of school pupils, some in uniform, were gathered at Johannesburg's Beyers Naude Square on Friday for a protest march to the Constitutional Court in support of ANC president Jacob Zuma. Milling around the square, some of the children said they were not sure what the march was about. They were from Soweto's Thabo, Thomas, Naledi, Prudence and Moletsane high schools. One of the students said that the organiser, the Congress of South African Students (Cosas), went to their schools and told them they should join their march. "They asked our teachers and organised a train for us to come here. But we were not well informed about the reason why we are protesting," Nomsa Mabona said. Other students sat around, some played soccer, while they waited for instructions from Cosas. Cosas projects and campaigns officer Siya Sintwa said: "We are waiting for about 10 000 students from Tshwane, Soweto, Ekurhuleni, Vaal, and the Greater Johannesburg area." Referring to Zuma's protracted legal battle, he said that no-one should be under investigation for more than seven years. The judicial system was treating Zuma unfairly, he said. In a statement handed out ahead of the march Cosas said its president Kenny Motshegoa would deliver a memorandum to Chief Justice Pius Langa on the "continued manipulation and abuse of the judicial system against the president of the ANC, comrade Jacob Zuma". According to the statement there was a campaign, allegedly being conducted through "the organs of class rule - the courts", to stop Zuma from becoming the country's next president. Cosas members said they were prepared to repeat the June 16 uprising, where pupils took to the streets, primarily in defiance of apartheid education policy. "Those who think there will be peace after they illegally take Cde Zuma to court, they are not only dreaming, but they must be prepared to meet the anger of South African students," the statement read. The Constitutional Court ruled against Zuma's attempt to challenge the searches and seizures that were part of the corruption investigation against him.

Pupils 'march for Zuma'

Mass marches have been growing in size, spread country wide and their causes have become more and more trivial (food prices, fuel prices, et...

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Cosas defends Zuma march, calls for voting age to be lowered to 7

Pupils 'march for Zuma'

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