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Cape Times reports that President Jacob Zuma has yet again at the eleventh hour skipped the site where mineworkers were gunned down by police in Marikana in North West in 2012.
Until Tuesday night, Zuma hadbeen scheduled to campaign door-to-door in Wonderkop, where residents were preparing to give him a hostile reception. But at 6pm the ANC released a changed programme for Zuma, redirecting his campaign to Maboloka in Madibeng, which is an ANC stronghold. This is the second time in less than six months that Zuma has seemingly avoided going to Marikana, which is increasingly being viewed as a no-go area for his party. But the EFF and its leader Julius Malema often receive a warm welcome there. Since police gunned down striking miners in what has become known as the Marikana massacre, the area is of political significance. A group of women draped in EFF and mining union Amcu T-shirts vowed they would boo Zuma if he came there.
- Read this report by Thabiso Thakali in full at Cape Times
- Read too, Once an ANC stronghold, Marikana residents likely to pin hopes on EFF, at BDLive
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