SOUTH AFRICA People's Assembly steps up calls for Zuma to resign

SOUTH AFRICA People's Assembly steps up calls for Zuma to resign JOHANNESBURG - The newly-formed People’s Assembly says it plans to occupy public spaces on 27 April, Freedom Day. The movement held public meetings across the country on Saturday. With the hashtag #RiseSouthAfrica, the People's Assembly is a platform calling for President Jacob Zuma's removal. Over 75 civil society organisations have aligned themselves with the movement and will be embarking on a 'Save South Africa' march to Luthuli House on Monday. “Government knows about the levels of discontent that exist, and if government doesn’t act on that discontent, doesn’t act on the people’s demands about the president then what government is going to see is an escalating movement of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions of people saying this corrupt South Africa, this South Africa of hunger, and poverty and inequality, is not the South Africa we dreamed of, is not the South Africa that the constitution envisaged," said Mark Heywood of Section 27. "We want that South Africa, and that’s what people who are here are saying." -