LOOTING l President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that his government failed to foresee and prepare for a possible attack on our democracy. Following looting that has been happening in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
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DA leader John Steenhuisen, said he should have gone further and announced his decision to immediately fire police minister Bheki Cele and intelligence chief Ayanda Dlodlo.
“In any other democracy, there would be no question that their heads would roll for this utter failure of intelligence and preparedness,” said Steenhuisen.
The DA leader further said, if the safety of South Africans comes before the unity of the ANC, then Cele and Dlodlo must go.
President Ramaphosa furthermore acknowledged that the violence and looting over the past week is a deliberate, coordinated attack on our democracy. He failed to acknowledge that the people who coordinated this attack are in his party and that it is ANC factional fighting.
The president called for the country to unite to clean up the mess. The first step to cleaning up the mess must surely be to fire these two cabinet ministers who have so utterly failed in their duty to protect South African lives, property, and livelihoods.
“SA cannot afford to have our national security undermined by Ministers who have failed dismally in their roles to preempt this sort of attack,” he said responding to the President’s address.
Ramaphosa has also called upon South Africans to continue the process they have started and use Mandela day to provide food and clean affected areas. He added, that this should be a norm in South Africa to clean streets all the time.
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“This Mandela Day we will clean our streets, but we want the President to clean up his cabinet of those who have failed our nation,” he stressed out DA leader.
President Ramaphosa has acknowledged that his government failed to foresee and prepare for a possible attack on our democracy.
He should have gone further and announced his decision to immediately fire police minister Bheki Cele and intelligence chief Ayanda Dlodlo.
— John Steenhuisen MP (@jsteenhuisen) July 16, 2021
