Vicious ruling party factionalism cannot be allowed to ruin SA

It is astonishing that the police were largely missing in action, and that arrests were pitifully few, a full 24 hours after the eruption of large-scale violence that has all but shut down our capital city.Dozens of buses and trucks have been torched by marauding mobs, shops have been looted, foreigners targeted, highways blocked and government departments forced to close early as the protesters - mainly ANC supporters, despite attempts by Luthuli House to disown them - ran amok.