Xolani Qubeka
THERE is rampant pain among the families whose loved ones died as collateral damage of the carnage that started on our national roads with the burning of scores of commercial trucks.
When we hear reports that at least 330 people died in the looting and associated thuggery, we seem to see one number – 330. Yet that number represents 330 families, robbed of their loved ones because someone's conviction, somewhere in the dark corners, conceived what was to be another Marikana. The nation is too silent. Our national flag ought to fly at half-mast and we should be in mourning.
We shout and cry out more about destroyed malls than the human lives lost.
The deeds of those days makes the Marikana disaster the beginning of our…
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Cape Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-07-28