PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the ongoing violence that has been ravaging the country’s main economic provinces – Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, for the past few days following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Ramaphosa said it was a matter of concern to all South Africans that some of these acts of violence were based on ethnic mobilisation.
Protesters in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng have been burning vehicles, looting stores and blockading main routes in protests against Zuma’s jail sentence of 15 months that the Constitutional Court imposed on him for contempt of court after he refused to return to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
“While there are those who may be hurt and angry at this moment, there can never be any justification for such violent, destructive and disruptive actions,” said Ramaphosa during a televised address on Sunday.
“This must be condemned by all South Africans at all
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