'Our beloved country is aflame. We need to act.,' Mangosuthu Buthelezi said.
With KwaZulu-Natal reeling after days of violent protests — which ultimately spread to Gauteng on Sunday — IFP MP Mangosuthu Buthelezi called for authorities to take action against those responsible.
As we witness a country aflame with violent protests, looting and destruction, it is clear that SA is being destroyed. This has become far bigger than politics. It has enveloped rogue and criminal elements, as well as an army of desperadoes who have nothing to lose in the face of poverty and unemployment. The state is bring held to ransom as citizens create anarchy.
This is an internal war against ourselves, and SA cannot survive it. Ours was already a country on its knees. Such unchecked destruction will finish off any chance of recovery or economic survival. If there is any fear in acting against the perpetrators, that fear must be set aside for the sake of us all.
In 1976, after the Soweto uprising, I was working closely with Mr Oliver Tambo and the ANC’s mission-in-exile. What had happened in Soweto led the ANC to call for ungovernability. They urged all oppressed South Africans to make this country ungovernable. While I understood this response, I warned Mr Tambo against it, for I foresaw the creation of a culture of violence and lawlessness that we would be hard-pressed to change or remove when we gained control of the country.
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