A family brutally attacked and torn apart in an axe attack, Metro Police officers holding a firearm to a child’s head and yet another violent mall robbery.
These events all took place in one week.
Wake up Mr President – your country is burning.
Unlike other people, I hold you accountable for what is happening in South Africa because you are the elected president of this republic. The voters placed you in command of this country and it is, ultimately, you who decides where our country will go.
Our people need leadership, the good kind, not silly comments about Jan van Riebeeck.
What, pray tell, are you going to tell the family murdered by axe-wielding attackers?
What are you going to tell the shop owners whose stores were looted?
How do you explain the police officer arrested for (allegedly) assisting the looters? Or the claims from numerous people about how the responding officers turned a blind eye to what was happening?
What are you going to tell the hundreds of traumatised people simply out shopping but ended up in the cross-fire of a fire-fight?
Is this what our country has become? Must we go shopping with bulletproof vests?
It may be hard to comprehend, hidden behind bodyguards and bulletproof windows, but we ordinary citizens are afraid. People are dying Mr President.
And no, unlike other groups, I am not talking only about a certain race group – I am talking about everyone in this country. People from all race groups are being killed, every day, and yet police units are disbanded, efficient officers removed and task groups cancelled.
A minority of lawless individuals are holding this country hostage, Mr President, and we call upon you, as the Commander in Chief of this country, to take action.
I do understand that you cannot be everywhere, Mr President. I know you have to appoint people to positions to perform certain tasks. I only ask that you hold these people accountable – for both the successes and failures. Our country cannot continue down this path.
Before long, people are going to start taking the law into their own hands. Before long, I foresee armed gangs patrolling the streets. And not all these groups are going to have honest intentions.
The SAPS is stretched perilously thin, with that number further reduced by corruption.
Criminals have caught onto the fact that load-shedding impacts upon security systems. Before long, gangs/groups are going to target areas based upon Eskom’s load-shedding timetable. We have already seen one such instance in Johannesburg.
Further to this point, some groups know that companies have to transport money, and attack the staff transporting the money. These attackers do not care who gets killed or who gets caught in the crossfire.
Mr President, come on, do you not see the flames of this country licking at your very door?
We do. We see these flames every time we step outside. We see these flames every time we go to bed.
South Africa is burning Mr President.
South Africa is crying Mr President.
South Africa is haemorrhaging the blood of the innocent Mr President.
What more must I say for you to realise this?
