WATCH: Gauteng shutdown organisers picket outside the JSE
Organisers of the Gauteng shutdown picketed outside the Johannesburg stock exchange on Tuesday.
Representatives of coloured communities handed over a letter of notice, demanding the JSE addresses the socio-economic challenges they are facing.
This is part of their rolling action to raise awareness of the issues facing coloured communities.
The protest and mass action follows the death of Heather Peterson who was shot and killed during what is believed to be a gang-related shooting in Westbury last month.
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Peterson’s 10-year-old niece was injured during the incident.
“We call upon the JSE to provide us with a full audit of how many classified coloured are employed in your organisation, secondly we call on the JSE to publicly reveal how many classified coloured communities benefitted from your CSI spend and development programs,” said one of the organisers, Anthony Williams.
Williams said the group also wants information from all JSE-listed companies on the employment numbers of people classified as coloured.
The group has given the JSE seven days to respond.
“Should our notice go unattended, we will have no choice but to cut the economic blood flow of all listed companies. We will ensure that investors turn away from South Africa and we will mobilise the international community to impose sanctions on South Africa,” added Williams.
The group plans to mobilise coloured and other communities across Gauteng to march to the office of the Gauteng legislature on Friday under the banner ‘Blood Friday’.