Tony Weaver's 'Madiba Moment'

NEWSWATCH: If you didn't read it, you should have...so here is Weaver's 'Madiba Moment', and while we're about it, we'll also take a look at how a silent protest against Alide Dasnois' dismissal as editor of the Cape Times, was hijacked. (video)

By Rod Baker

18 Dec 2013

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Sowetan live: Police intervene in Cape Town protest... Suppose you want to stage a silent, dignified protest and then a mob turn up determined to disrupt it. Well, that's what happened in Cape Town yesterday when a group of rowdy protesters, allegedly members of Movement for Transformation of Media in SA (MTMSA) and the SA National Civic Organisation (Sanco), did just that to an R2K silent protest.
The police were on hand and told the MTMSA/Sanco group that they had not applied for a protest permit and had better disperse and leave - or face arrest.
So apparently they did leave - quietly - but not before turning what should have been a dignified silent protest into a rowdy one.
See also Transformation movement gate-crashes R2K Dasnois protest... and then watch the video and judge for yourself:

Rod Baker

About Rod Baker

Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor.