'Barclays financed the slave trade' (Johannesburg protest)

[struggle4progress]

28 May 2005 01:07

A group of protesters sang, danced and chanted anti-Barclays slogans in Johannesburg on Saturday morning against the British bank's take-over of Absa.

The protesters, from the Jubilee South Africa group, wore anti-privatisation T-shirts and carried banners reading "Barclays economic terrorists," "Barclays financed the slave trade" and "Go back to colonial Britain".

"We are opposing Barclays Bank's takeover of Absa until Barclays apologises for supporting the apartheid regime and until they give reparations to those who suffered because of its support of apartheid," Jubilee member and the march's organiser, Tristen Taylor, said.

The protesters shouted "Voetsek, Barclays, voetsek" and "Barclays has to go" as they sang and danced to Absa's head office in Main Street. They were watched by a small group of police officers. <snip>

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