‘No politics’: March and March plans to become ‘an AfriForum for black South Africans’

March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma said there was growing public pressure for the movement to enter politics. But she believed it could better serve South Africans as an independent civic organisation. Anti-illegal-immigration movementMarch and Marchsays it has no plans to become a political party, announcing instead that it wants to establish itself as “an AfriForum for black South Africans” through a new legal advocacy forum and humanitarian foundation.

Speaking during a media briefing in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday evening, March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma said there was growing public pressure for the movement to enter politics. “I think there’s a lot of pressure from people. I see people saying that they don’t want to be in a democracy, which is something that is just being thrown around,” she said.

The organisation announced the establishment of the SA First Forum, a social justice litigation body, as well as the March and March Foundation, a humanitarian non-profit organisation. “People are just big on political parties. Somehow, people still feel bound to political parties. They believe that if March and March becomes a political party, then they will be better represented.