Tensions ran high outside Durban's Diakonia Centre when foreign nationals and locals clashed, police were required to restore calm.
SOUTH Africa stands at a deeply uncomfortable crossroads. Across several communities, frustration over illegal immigration, deteriorating service delivery, unemployment, crime and economic stagnation has begun to spill into increasingly volatile protests.
In some areas, demonstrations have escalated into intimidation, vigilantism, and open threats of violence.
Against the backdrop of the looming June 30 deadline by which undocumented foreign nationals are expected by some groups to leave the Republic, tension has become palpable.
The central question confronting us is both moral and constitutional: are we beginning to substitute the rule of law with the rule of the mob? This question is not merely academic. It cuts to the very foundation of our constitutional democracy. South Africa is a state founded on law, due process, human dignity and institutional governance.
