Over the past few days, South Africa has experienced unprecedented and widespread looting and damage to property. These criminal acts have resulted in perpetrators, security and law enforcement officials and innocent bystanders being injured and even killed.
Pharmaceutical chain stores Dis-Chem and Clicks have, in the past 24 hours, reportedly closed their Covid-19 testing and vaccination sites in KwaZulu-Natal due to the unrest. This, combined with similar impacts on municipal vaccination sites, may cause further delays to an already flailing process. We have seen that despite Zuma’s departure and retirement at Nkandla, and the appointment of Cyril Ramaphosa as president, the looting of state funds has continued at various levels of government and is in no way restricted to a small group of individuals associated with the former president. Rather, corruption within the state has become embedded.
Governance failures and the non-implementation of government policy has allowed for the systematic looting of public resources. As a result, communities have increasingly lost faith in government and, especially, in those who should be providing services and taking steps to address inequality and insecurity for the poorest and most destitute of residents.
Solving these deep-seated governance and societal problems requires principled leadership across all levels of government, and the institution of lasting corrective action where checks and balances are ineffective. It requires a shift towards accountable conduct that prioritises the needs of the most poor and destitute, and which then builds trust between communities and leaders in government.
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