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The United Democratic Movement (UDM) condemns in the strongest possible terms the call by the SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande and the ANC for the public and Tripartite Alliance members to boycott the City Press
newspaper. Their intemperate call makes a mockery of the good progress we have made in entrenching respect for the right to freedom of expression since 1994. All the parties concerned must respect the court process underway.

Both the SACP and the ANC appear to be using the saga between President Zuma and cartoonists to fight their own battles with the City Press, which exposed their hypocrisy on many issues. Their call would have resonated with the people in the pre-1994 era when they still served as a moral compass for South Africans. However, given the extent of corruption in Government together with its poor service delivery record, attempts by a compromised leadership to call for a newspaper boycott are unlikely to succeed.

The people know that they are being asked to boycott the same newspaper that brings them news about corruption in Government, including the involvement of the Tripartite Alliance partners' investment arms in government tenders,
 or example, Gautrain, E-tolling, etc.

The SACP should, instead, be leading the call for the reduction of the ballooning cost of living for the people of South Africa, caused by an inefficient and corrupt Tripartite Alliance Government. The UDM calls on the South African public to ignore this senseless call.