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Ntokozo Mkhize

National organiser of Concerned Citizens of South Africa, a civil society movement that called a national shutdown over record fuel prices in South Africa.

Oct 19, 2026

2:28
Is that in response to the national shutdown? And where are the other areas that you have reports of already?
2:35
In fact, we really received that response.
2:39
We did receive that response.
2:42
In fact, that information, if I may put it that way, we received that information from one of our provincial organisers, something happening in 2012 and other roads, in fact, major roads in the country.
2:55
Remember, this is the cry of ordinary citizens.
3:00
Even though we are a law-abiding organisation, And we do everything and anything within the parameters of the law.
3:09
But we cannot control the anger of the masses on the ground.
4:26
Those matriculants are going to be disrupted today.
1:04
How are you ensuring that this shutdown remains lawful and does not disrupt essential services?
1:13
As law-abiding citizens and also our members who are members of the concerned citizens of South Africa and the responsible citizens too uh we have issued a call a national call to say that everything that we will be doing on monday must be seen as only the call to the government to say government we cannot breathe with this petrol price that keeps going up so everything that we'll be doing on the day will be lawful, peaceful, and also in line with our constitution and law.
2:40
So what exactly do you want government to do, especially on fuel taxes and levies, and by how much do you want them to drop it
2:48
by? We are clear on our demands.
2:52
In our demands, we said the fuel price must be cut by 50%.
2:58
And also to reduce the fuel levy that sponsors corruption, because I can tell you now, that the fuel levies that we are paying are sponsoring corruption in this country.
3:09
Look at RAF.
3:10
How do they spend our money at RAF? Then again, what we are also demanding, the funding of corrupt RAF through the fuel prices I've mentioned above, the first striking of intercontinental energy cooperation.
0:04
Just how angry are you at the petrol price crisis? Here's a voice note from Clifford.
0:10
Uh, good morning, Lester.
0:14
I believe the government has the power to change the situation.
0:19
Uh, all the government must do is to practice what they preach, be neutral, uh, and, uh, you know, intervene in, you know, wherever the hiccup is with the, with our petrol, uh, you know, by being neutral and not choosing sides and promoting, you know, um, peace and stability in our country and throughout the world, and they're not doing that.
0:49
Thank you very much, Lester.
0:51
Clifford.
2:00
What exactly do you think should be proposed, uh, where the money should come from? What spending should government sacrifice to fund the fuel price cut?
2:11
Okay.

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