South African Flag Goes Up Where #ZumaMustFall Banner Was
It’s been a heady week for the block of flats at the top of Long Street in Cape Town, where a #ZumaMustFall banner went up on Friday, had its photograph taken by countless people over the next 24 hours, but was torn down by ANC members on Saturday. Now the building has been draped with a […]
It’s been a heady week for the block of flats at the top of Long Street in Cape Town, where a #ZumaMustFall banner went up on Friday, had its photograph taken by countless people over the next 24 hours, but was torn down by ANC members on Saturday. Now the building has been draped with a South African flag that went up overnight.
The identity of the person who put up the South African flag remains a mystery, as does the identity of the person who paid an estimated R400,000 to put the #ZumaMustFall poster up, the estimated cost for a month.
The reaction on social media over the flag has been much more muted than the #ZumaMustFall banner, with very few pictures being added.
The repercussions over the raising – and then the destruction – of the #ZumaMustFall poster have not ended. While the city authorities said the proper procedures were not followed to erect the six-storey banner, others have said that it constituted free speech (and, to prove their point, have even tweeted pictures of the constitution photoshopped in place of the banner, like in the photo below).
It also remains to be seen whether action will be taken against an ANC MP who called for people to burn down the Zuma banner, which, it was argued, threatened the lives of the building’s inhabitants.
Action might also be taken against the company that erected the posted. The chief of the company Independent Outdoor Media was quoted in reports on Tuesday saying that he never imagined that the Zuma banner would cause such a fuss or that people would trespass on the property to tear it down.
