DA launches plan to Unite, Rebuild and Protect KZN communities
3 August 2021
The DA in KwaZulu-Natal has today launched a programme to Unite, Rebuild and Protect the communities throughout the province that were shattered by the violence and looting of the ANC’s factional war that spilled onto its streets.
Three weeks after the events, it’s still hard to come to terms with the sheer scale of the devastation and plunder, and it is critical that justice is done - and seen to be done - for not only the looters and instigators, but also those who failed in their constitutional duty to protect citizens. There has to be consequences for the damage and loss of lives and livelihoods. We cannot allow those responsible to simply walk away from it and this will require a considered and transparent analysis, not a cover-up.
But just as important, we need to pick up the pieces in these damaged communities and bring people together around the task of putting broken buildings, businesses and lives back together again.
What this province certainly does not need and cannot afford is the kind of crass racial baiting and scapegoating that we have seen from parts of the ANC and the EFF since the unrest. Nobody wins when hatred and blame are whipped up by politicians eager to score political mileage from the chaos, just as nobody wins when more businesses are destroyed and more jobs are lost forever.