"Angola Says Enough!!" reads in the poster released by the protestors, Laura Macedo, Helena Vitória Pereira, Fernando Macedo, Leandro Freire and Mwata Sebastião.
The demonstration is scheduled to take place at noon in the Largo da Independência (1st of May) in Luanda, and was communicated to the Provincial Government of Luanda on 28 September.
According to a statement sent to Lusa, the motto of the demonstration is: "For a serious and fair fight against corruption and impunity in Angola against all suspects".
The poster alluding to the initiative urges Angolans to "get out of Facebook and demand justice", to say "enough" to the "lack of seriousness and transparency in the fight against corruption, media manipulation, lies and postponement of local elections".
Last Wednesday, National Independence Day, thousands of young people in Luanda tried to access the center of the city to participate in a demonstration, but were stopped by the police who were dispersing the groups using tear gas and water cannons.
Police claim to have used only non-lethal means to contain the protesters, but a young student died in the clashes. Eyewitnesses claim he was shot by police, who deny responsibility. Doctors at the hospital where the student, Innocencio de Matos, died, claim to have been the victim of assault with an unspecified object.
The demonstration had been banned by the Luanda Provincial Government, invoking, among other arguments, the rules in force in the current calamity situation that limit street gatherings to five people.
The peaceful march aimed to demand better living conditions, local elections in 2021 and the resignation of the head of the office of the President of the Republic, Edeltrudes Costa, allegedly involved in illicit enrichment schemes.
In the following days, the activists continued to complain about repression and criticize police action.
Laurinda Gouveia said in a video shared on her Facebook page that she had been kidnapped and threatened with death by the police, along with other activists, when she wanted to participate in a vigil in honor of Inocêncio de Matos, and then abandoned in a woods hours away.
Dito Dali told Lusa this Monday that five young people are still being held in the municipality of Balombo, Benguela province, who were collected on November 10, one day before the march, when they were preparing the event.
