In commemoration of the June 16th uprising in 1976, hundreds of protesters braved covid restrictions to demand the removal of colonialist statues and for the Amazon development in Cape Town to be stopped.

Blue refuse bags were pulled over the heads of the statues of General Jan Smuts and Jan van Riebeek shortly after warning was given to the Government of South Africa to remove them.

Posters reading F***K Bizos were waved as the protesters walked through the Cape Town CBD. Bizos and his Multi Billion e commerce business Amazon is the centre of a dispute on the location of a new development for his Africa headquarters. Khoi communities have laid claim to the land Bizos's business will be operating from. Currently the area is an Eco park and golf course.

Speakers at the protest likened Amazon to a modern day Dutch East India Company, The DEIC was the business Jan van Riebeek was a representative of in 1652 when he colonised South Africa.

Dr Reverend Allan Boesak a veteran freedom fighter during the liberation of South Africa, warned that the community will not allow the development to take place and that they will be sent back to where they came from.