We have, for the umpteenth time, another orgy of looting and wanton violence against purported foreigners and their property.But the events of the past week or so, deservedly condemned internationally, simply represent our country’s chickens coming home to roost.Nor is it in the main the hunger of the poor.On the contrary, the elephant in the room is the South African state itself, coupled with a permissive national culture of explaining away pretty much any transgression of the law.
Also at the back of their minds would have been our liberal Constitution, which could, in a flash, turn officers into criminals for trying to do their job. Then there are the faceless arsonists who burn commuter trains when they run late, or for some other nefarious purpose; alongside the so-called construction mafia, which has disrupted projects running into billions of rands around the country.
Violence, in which lives are endangered and property is destroyed, has become intrinsic to public protest in South Africa.That culture implores us to seek to negotiate about, and understand, everything – including acts of criminality. The point is that if the South African state properly did its job of managing immigration, eliminating corruption at home affairs and firmly dealing with all lawlessness, that debate would be superfluous.
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