Zille Arrested At Anti-Drugs March 4
Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille was arrested for taking part in a march against drug dealers on the Cape Flats.
There seems to be some confusion as to whether the march was legal. This article from News24 claims the march was legal, this article from IOL claims that Zille was arrested for attending an ‘illegal gathering’.
The use of ‘illegal gatherings’ to disperse marchers is a bit concerning. According to our Constitution, section 17 of the Bill of Rights states:Everyone has the right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket and to present petitions.
So unless these protesters were brandishing weapons and tipping over cars, something I don’t think Helen Zille would associate herself with, there couldn’t have been much of a problem?
The fatal mistake Helen made: She (gasp) knocked on a drug dealer’s door! That’s ‘vigilantism’ according to Leonard Ramatlakane.
Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).
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aaaa, nice! Really nice… legal-illegal… result is arest…. well, simply our law…
aaaa, nice! Really nice… legal-illegal… result is arest…. well, simply our law…