Members of civil society and from various organisations planned a protest at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) for tomorrow (05 October 2018) against DIRCO’s failure to implement the governing party’s unanimous resolution for the immediate and unconditional downgrade of the SA Embassy in Israel to a liaison office. 

 

Law enforcement today denied “permission” for the protest, claiming, among others, that the application for 5000 protestors was too large to take place outside DIRCO.

 

We will be engaging stakeholders to plan the way forward including the possibility of challenging this decision through legal processes.

 

Until then tomorrow's protest will be postponed and new date will be announced shortly.