OPPOSITION parties said on Wednesday that the security cluster Ministers were slow to grasp the scope of the current riots in South Africa, leading to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure take drastic, pre-emptive measures against violence and rampant looting witnessed in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Ramaphosa met with leaders of opposition parties on Wednesday to discuss ways to address the ongoing unrest in South Africa.
The leaders urged the president to put more troops on the streets.
In an interview with Inside Politics, United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader General Bantu Holomisa said the failure to respond adequately to the ongoing violence was the result of poor and ineffective intelligence collection, mainly due to a breakdown in communication between president Ramaphosa and the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster (JCPSC) Ministers.
The nation was totally unprepared, said Holomisa.
“I don’t think the President was briefed properly by the security cluster
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