Marikana, apartheid could be behind delayed army deployment - analyst

The ghosts of Marikana and apartheid-style authoritarianism could be behind the delay to deploy the army to assist to quell the ongoing looting and violence in the country, but poor leadership has also been blamed. Most importantly, One South Africa Movement founder Mmusi Maimane pointed to the beginning of the end of the ANC-inspired liberation euphoria.

The Economic Freedom Fighters put the blame squarely on absent leadership and lack of control under the ANC for the escalation of the violence. Breakfast, from Nelson Mandela University, said the protest was unrelated to service delivery but triggered by former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest. These were not protests triggered by lack of response to demands for service delivery. They were engineered by people within the ANC who are aligned to Zuma and are discontented about the turn of events within the party and the state.

Professor Dirk Kotze, political scientist at the University of South Africa, said it was not necessarily true that the ANC was not in control but some parties, like the EFF, were making the government a scapegoat. The police were scared following the Marikana experience and other post-1994 incidents to act firmly and timeously, hence they did not react to intimidation by some in Nkandla.

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