The Total Shutdown movement will be
protesting again on September 25 - which is expected to affect major arterial roads in the Cape Town metro from 5am to 10am - because none of their demands have been met, a year later.
When asked how it will differ from the shutdown staged by Gatvol Capetonian on August 8 (which was chiefly about housing issues and crime, and led to sporadic violence) one of the organisers, Nadia Mayman De Grass, told the Cape Times: “There won’t be any burning tyres, there won’t be any throwing of stones.
“We will be attempting to close arterial roads such as the M7, Jakes Gerwel, the Stellenbosch Arterial, Valhalla Drive and Voortrekker Road from 5am to 10am because it seems there is no other way the government is going to listen to us accept when we affect businesses.”