The protests in Daveyton are a sombre and ominous warning that service delivery must remain a priority if we are to avoid total chaos and anarchy.
Recent warnings by prominent political personalities,about poverty in South Africa must be taken seriously.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights.
The frustrations and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
For building peace, we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives.
As we seek to strengthen the fabric of the nation, there needs to be a concentrated focus on the root causes of instability, conflict and confrontation everywhere.
The danger signals are unmistakably clear.
The co-existence of a world of wealth and prosperity and a world of poverty and misery is too profound a contradiction to be ignored.
It lies at the heart of an emerging crisis.
More than one million people are still condemned to abject poverty.
The despair and frustration which form their daily experience breed tension and trigger an instability that is bound to erupt from time to time.
Whatever cloud of uncertainty may hang over the future, we must not fail to lay the foundation of a more stable and equitable order, which fosters greater hope and wider opportunities for mankind.
