Thousands of Cape Town demonstrators join nationwide shutdown calling for Justice for CweCwe

CAPE TOWN - Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Cape Town joining a nationwide shutdown of the education department offices, calling for Justice for CweCwe.

The seven-year-old who was allegedly raped at her school in October last year.

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Demonstrators are calling on the executive of the Western Cape’s Department of Education to make their way to their offices and accept their memorandum.

Clad in all black with handmade posters donning messages of support, thousands, mainly young people, have marched to the Department of Education in Cape Town’s City Centre.

Protesters are calling for swift action by law enforcement to apprehend and charge a suspect for the alleged rape of a seven-year-old, in the Eastern Cape.

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They’ve marched to the provincial Education Department office, as a show of solidarity with other activists and non-governmental organisations who are staging demonstrations in other parts of the country.

Earlier, demonstrators dismissed a senior official from the Western Cape Education Department who’d come to accept a memorandum.

The called for Education MEC David Maynier or Premier Alan Winde to take the peaceful demonstration seriously and make their way to Cape Town’s city centre.

“The deputy director is saying that the premier is not available. Our response was we have left the comfort of our homes to be here. We sacrificed to be here; we will wait for him to make his way.”

The heavy police presence remains while demonstrators sing and chant at the department’s office’s where the protest is taking place.