My fears that we are a crippled state headed for an abysmal end, unless something miraculous happens fast, are becoming real.
So much has happened in this sad country. The frequency of traumatic and depressing events has made it practically impossible to distinguish between reality or a bad dream. Keeping many South Africans awake is not just the biting poverty, violent crime and corruption, but the impunity and almost zero action against perpetrators. Judging by the public and tough talk by authorities, one would have expected the masterminds of the July attacks on SA’s economic infrastructure to be known and...
But all we have on the police radar and in our courts thus far are people who made fools of themselves, spewed bile and screamed social media war cries in the perceived persecution of former president Jacob Zuma. Though the intended domino effect of the attacks that started in KwaZulu-Natal died down in Gauteng, mostly because of the vigilance of communities, it exposed spectacular weaknesses in the police.
There is no way this state of instability at the very top will not reverberate and have ripple effects down to the lower management and, ultimately, the conduct of police officers in our cities and neighbourhoods. Mamelodi in Tshwane is currently gripped by fear over a character dubbed John Wick, who is seemingly taking out members of an alleged extortion gang known as Boko Haram.
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