Violence during protests worrying: Jacob Zuma

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Premeditated violence during protests was worrying, President Jacob Zuma said during his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday.

"The right to protest, peacefully and unarmed, is enshrined in the Constitution. However, when protests threaten lives and property and destroy valuable infrastructure intended to serve the community, they undermine the very democracy that upholds the right to protest."

Zuma acknowledged there had been a number of violent protests...read more here: Violence during protests worrying: Jacob Zuma
 
Well the police never do anything about violent protesters so why would they bother changing, maybe if you started arresting them we would see some change.
 
The sad thing is that even though people are unhappy with how things are run in this country, most people will still vote for the ANC.

It's all they know.
 
Solitude said:
The sad thing is that even though people are unhappy with how things are run in this country, most people will still vote for the ANC.

It's all they know.
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Not anymore they now have eff. but also I think the elections are rigged :-/
 
Tsar said:
Not anymore they now have eff. but also I think the elections are rigged :-/
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The EFF may actually be a good thing in that it will steal some of the ANC's votes. Whereas the DA will probably steal some of their votes too.
 
Solitude said:
The EFF may actually be a good thing in that it will steal some of the ANC's votes. Whereas the DA will probably steal some of their votes too.
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Unless they win then this country will be fucked.

As for DA I don't trust them at all myself. All these political parties are dodgy.
 
The reason that violent protests are still going on is because if peaceful resolution fails to bring change; then violence must be the only discourse
 
Snare said:
The reason that violent protests are still going on is because if peaceful resolution fails to bring change; then violence must be the only discourse
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The problem is that they are going straight to violence without peaceful resolution these days
 
Ike_009 said:
The problem is that they are going straight to violence without peaceful resolution these days
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This is true. But this is also because people have no real motivation to stay peaceful. We have all noted that violence results in firstly your platform having an immediate nationwide recognition; and secondly demands are negotiated at a faster rate by the government [in order to curtail further violence]. Knowing these things, they see no reason to begin with peace as violence furthers their ends better.
 
Which is why we should be arresting idiots with knob kerries and bricks at protests and more teargas, pepper paintballs and riot mortars
 
Ike_009 said:
Which is why we should be arresting idiots with knob kerries and bricks at protests and more teargas, pepper paintballs and riot mortars
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They cannot afford to. If they come down too hard onto protesters, their detractors will draw immediate comparisons to the NP's actions in the day's of old.
 
Snare said:
They cannot afford to. If they come down too hard onto protesters, their detractors will draw immediate comparisons to the NP's actions in the day's of old.
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Maybe but at this rate they are destroying SA, we can't keep sitting back.
 
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