SOWETAN | Protests show anger to leaders: According to Gauteng police commissioner Lt-Gen Elias Mawela, releasing the fourth quarter provincial crime statistics yesterday, there were 630 protests reported in three months in the province.
Mawela characterised the period between January and March as “a season of discontent”. He told MPLs in the Gauteng legislature that the service delivery protests “remain the core diversion of our resources” from crime combating as police officers are often expected to quell the unrests.
The reality is that police can only do so much to restore law and order. In the long run they cannot prevent the recurrence of protests at the core of which are service delivery failures. If demonstrating is one way of making one’s voice heard, then the government has been tone deaf in its reaction to protests by simply sending police to clear the rubble and engendering a false sense of peace.
The overdue reckoning is why people continue to demonstrate day after day demanding services they were meant to get decades ago.
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