There is a growing tendency in South Africa where people derive seemingly perverse pleasure from acts that are contradictory to the rule of law. Every year we brace ourselves for a strike season that is more often than not characterised by a lawless passion for anarchy, violence and public disorder.
Of concern is that student strikes at our tertiary institutions seem to have assumed the same culture of lawlessness. Violent student strikes have become a regular occurrence in South Africa, with students destroying university and private property with impunity.
While the UDM understands the importance of a dispensation that guarantees the people's right to strike, the government urgently needs to find ways to counter this disturbing phenomenon. Nothing is more disconcerting than watching our future leaders acting in ways that constitute a perversion of the true meaning of democracy.