SAPS has learned nothing as SA faces perfect storm for repeat of July unrest
8 July 2022
Note to Editors: Please find attached soundbite by Andrew Whitfield MP.
It has been a year since unprecedented violent unrest ripped across KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng, terrorising our citizens and torching our economy.
Since the events of July 2021, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has not arrested a single person who may have orchestrated the violence in spite of Police Minister Bheki Cele claiming to know of 19 people who instigated the unrest.
SAPS was caught with their pants down in 2021 and have done absolutely nothing since that date to prepare themselves for a repeat of last year’s violence. As South Africa’s winter of discontent sets in with rising inflation, endless loadshedding, high rates of unemployment and political instability in the ANC, we face the imminent risk of a repeat of last year’s violence.