Second March to Demand the Resignation of Nigel Gumede – 24 November 2011

The permit for the march (a legal fiction in democratic South Africa that is a hangover from apartheid but something that the municipality illegally insists on) was denied but AbM marched anyway in defiance of this de facto ban on the march. With the COP 17 meeting coming up the police did not respond with violence and the march, of more than 3 000, proceeded peacefully in the pouring rain.The officials left the crowd standing in the rain and only came to accept the memorandum when there was a threat to occupy the City Hall.