Gigaba urges leaders not to incite violence as houses are torched in Rosettenville
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has called on leaders to refrain from inciting violence after protests in Johannesburg’s Rosettenville in which at least 12 houses were torched. "Our purpose is to ensure that we highlight the importance for leaders to be measured in their public pronouncements. It could very well make one popular to say irresponsible statements that could incite vandalism‚ that could incite South African communities to take the law into their own hands‚" said Gigaba. He was speaking at a meeting with senior officials at the Yeoville police station on safety and security issues and on how to stop violence spreading. Those there included Gauteng community safety MEC Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane and provincial police commissioner Deliwe de Lange. "Leaders have a responsibility at all times to be measured in their public pronouncements‚ considering the fact that as a result of what you say there could be lives that are lost‚ there could be property that could be destroyed...
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