Deputy President David Mabuza says government needs to be more responsive to avoid service delivery protests.
He was speaking after a recent housing protest in Lichtenburg in the North West in which two trucks and a bakkie were set alight."We are in a democratic state and it’s the rights of citizens to demonstrate their feelings," Mabuza said.
"If they don’t feel good, this is the right they have to call their leaders and present the story. It is the right of people to demonstrate."This is a challenge to leaders, if you see people demonstrating, it means they’ve gone too far too long with the problem," he said. "They have no other options, we need to close the gaps between us and the people. They don’t need to protest, we must engage them, we don’t need to open these gaps between us and the people.”
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