After a week of torment and violence, it is not possible to return to our places of work, our homes or our places of worship without deep sadness. There is barely a family in our precious country that has not been not touched in some way by domestic or xenophobic violence, by lawlessness or insecurity.

When this happens we turn inward, away from the essence that makes us the special nation we are, away from that spirit that recognises that, together, we are a nation alive with possibilities...

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