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Buti Manamela says Soweto looting cannot be justified Molaole Montsho, SAPA, Business Day, Johannesburg, 25 January 2015 The looting that flared up in Soweto south of Johannesburg cannot be justified, Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Buti Manamela, said on Sunday. He said young people reportedly claimed they looted foreign own shops to protect the economy of Soweto. "We should stand up and 'say not in our name'. You are not doing this in our name and we are not going to allow it. "There is a strong sense of entitlement and shifting the blame instead of taking responsibility," he said. "Crime is crime - you cannot justify it." He condemned the looting saying those leading it would turn against their neighbour once there were no foreigner-owned shops to loot. "They will look next door and say 'you are Venda therefore you must go to Venda, or, you are a Xhosa you must go to Pondoland'." He said young people in church have a role to speak against the bad things youths were associated with. "We are in church to strengthen those who have good things." He was speaking at the Rhema church in Protea South, Soweto. He called on parents to take a leading role in raising their children. "We cannot have a situation where parents are defeated by their children." He said parents must make sure that children who supposed to attend school were at school. He arrived at the church dressed in a black suit and listened attentively as Pastor Ray McCauley's sermon was beamed from Rhema in Randburg on to a giant screen. From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2015/01/25/buti-manamela-says-soweto-lootin g-cannot-be-justified Also in News24 <http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Looting-cant-be-justified-says-Manam ela-20150125> -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
