Black First Land First has openly accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of funding the uproar in North West. Cyril Ramaphosa funding North West protests – BLF#HandsOffSuprahttps://t.co/WBQAJX1BQT — BLACK 1ST LAND 1ST (@Black1stLand1st) April 28, 2018The party alleges that community members have been coerced with money, and fingered China Dodovu and Collen Maine as the organisers. “The protests are part of the program of the Cyril Ramaphosa faction to use money to sponsor a counter revolutionary situation in the North West. “The protests are a pre-emptive strike to evade the investigation into corruption,” BLF, adding that they demand that Ramaphosa distance himself from the ‘sponsored’ protests in the North West. They say a commission of inquiry into the current protest in the North West must be instituted without delay so “the truth can come out”.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 30, 2018 10:07 UTC