Chanting crowds continue flooding into Orlando Stadium

14 April 2018 - 09:54
By Kgaugelo Masweneng
These two siblings have also come to bid farewell to Mama Winnie.
Image: Naledi Shange via Twitter These two siblings have also come to bid farewell to Mama Winnie.

Hundreds of people continue to stream into the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday even after the arrival of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's body.

A sea of ANC yellow‚ green and black and EFF red floods through the gates of the stadium‚ as the crowd chants struggle songs.

Dozens of motorbikes revved their engines exciting the crowd outside waiting for access to the venue.

While the ANC had distributed its yellow t-shirts depicting the struggle icon‚ the EFF crowd had clad its own t-shirts brandishing Madikizela-Mandela's face.

When one enters the gates of the stadium‚ you are greeted by a heavily backed up police force. The metro police‚ SAPS‚ community safety‚ private security and the defence force have been deployed to the funeral.

Inside the stadium there's a sing-off between the ANC and the EFF members.

Some members of the public are stationed outside the stadium dancing and eating food from the market.


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