A number of faith-based organisations have expressed scepticisim about govenment’s ability to contain violence that may occur during Tuesday’s planned protests against undocumented foreign nationals.
Religious groups together with representatives of business, political parties, labour and civil society expressed their opposition to the protest action. They formed part of an online rally rejecting the action planned by groups such as March and March and Operation Dudula.
Reverend Moss Ntlha of the Evangelical Alliance says, “We have had assurances of this sort before, only to be found, as we did find in 2021, that the readiness of the state to actually address what such a social turmoil can look like, it’s often not up to the required standard. We are concerned that the government has allowed the state and its institution to be weakened. Indeed, if the Malanga Commission is anything to go by, we realise that the people who actually break the law are fully represented within state apparatus, even the security establishment within government. This situation is very troubling.”
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