Former ANC councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, Andile Lungisa, is calling for a nationwide shutdown in support of former president Jacob Zuma. 

Lungisa, who slammed the country’s judiciary, said judges were not doing their job and accused them of becoming political activists.

This, after acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe ruled that Zuma was guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months behind bars. 

In retaliation to the judgment, Lungisa said they had organised a shutdown protest across all provinces on Friday.

He said the shutdown was not under the banner of the ANC or Radical Economic Transformation group, but was for all South Africans concerned with the violation of the country’s Constitution.

On Wednesday, the Jacob Zuma Foundation labelled the judgment “judicially emotional and angry”, as well as “not consistent with our Constitution”. 

Speaking to News24 on Thursday, Lungisa said the ruling handed down by the Constitutional Court should be disregarded.

Edward Zuma, the son of convicted former president Jacob Zuma, says his father will not spend a single day in prison if he has anything to say about it.To hell with the decision.

“If police, they’ve got bullets, they must kill all of us. That is the message which we are communicating … We are saying this time around we will respond. Because we are saying there is no way any system that tampers with justice should have a place. We are not going to rest until the ConCourt judges resign,” Lungisa said.

Meanwhile, another group pledging their allegiance to the former president, said they would be meeting the Zuma family on Thursday and would later hold a press briefing at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.