We need a commission of inquiry to find the central characters in the tragic event that played out in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Our history of conflict is one that won’t be confined to the past. For almost 200 years, we’ve had countless clashes where blood was spilled because of tribal conflicts, colonial expansion and, in latter years, the suppression of the “native”.
But the greater cost has to be the loss of more than 300 lives in violence that deserve a moniker of its own, maybe the “Zuma Protests” or the “Covid Protests”. Now that’s a bit of perspective that we’ve lacked as some of us laugh at memes of people stealing televisions too large for their getaway cars.
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