This week has been precedent-setting

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. The looting may have abated for now but the damage has been done. Many have seen the scenes of the police, soldiers and politicians — so-called leaders — watching as looting happened in front of their eyes. Perhaps the fear of another Marikana is unpalatable, and it should be, especially as its young women and children who’d be in the crossfires this time around.

An example was set for the disregard for the rule of law as former president Jacob Zuma attacked judges and our judiciary with his customary giggle. We saw how he disrespected the law and ran amok when he was told he would be imprisoned for 15 months for not respecting a Constitutional Court sanction. Then his children and allies took to social media and communication platforms to tell his supporters to rally and shut down South Africa once he was escorted to Escourt’s correctional facility.

 

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