How the police are failing our children

A relative speaks to the media outside Enyobeni Tavern in East London, where at least 21 young people died on Sunday. Picture: DAILY DISPATCH/MARK ANDREWSThey were dying, she wrote in an essay later for The New York Review of Books, by drowning or falling off buildings or trains, having heart attacks or asphyxiating in houses warmed by faulty wood stoves, getting hit by cars and poisoning themselves with alcohol, either by drinking too much of it or ingesting badly brewed moonshine.

While Gessen’s essay was about Russia’s well-honed drinking problem , its ripples were felt in Enyobeni Tavern in the early hours of Sunday morning when 21 young people died. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s hand-wringing that the tragedy is all the worse for having happened during Youth Month or the police minister — a man not known for tact — blaming the parents ring both true and hollow.

Those children might have been better served by a police force that actually sent officers to check out crowded taverns full of young people, or they might have been saved by stricter parents, but what happened on Sunday morning is much more than that. The tragedy is a failure of so many things: safety, parenting, policing and nightclub management, right down to simple care for one another.

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