Student protests: Mob law won the day

Louis Mielke

The storming of the Union Buildings and Parliament by mobs is definitely not protest action, but the start of unlawful actions to gain what a small group want.

We can look forward to more of these actions as there are so many people who have rights to what they want. The silent majority flee to protect themselves from the mobs.

It will be interesting to see what the “Community Voices” will say when at the start of the 2016 academic year if transformation mobs storm the universities and call for the number of whites in the universities to be set at a maximum of eight per cent of the student body (eight per cent is roughly the white percentage of the South African population).

At Wits, if the student body is 35 000, then the total number of whites should be 2 800. This number may be less than white students already at Wits, thus no white first year intake.

South Africa is a democracy where actions required to satisfy all the different rights groups should be carried out within the framework of the law. Not mob law.

This is a good time for the Chief Rabbi’s Bill of Responsibility to be activated throughout our country.

 ​​Johannesburg