BOKSBURG - ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said the rule of law must prevail
and warned South Africans against vigilantism.
This as demonstrations over undocumented migrants continue in parts of the country.
Mbalula says communities cannot take matters into their own hands and insists the state must provide leadership.
"When it comes to issues of immigration and undocumented foreigners, the rule of law and the rule of law must dictate what must actually happen. People cannot take the law into their own hands and render us into a banana republic. The state must intervene.
"That's what we believe in. We will discuss, as part of the report, reflect on the current developments in the country, and I will make a comprehensive response. There are a whole lot of things that are in the report, including the conference of the left by the Communist Party, and what is our attitude towards it.
"The NEC will reflect on that. The current state of the situation in the country is happening, which brought us to vigilantism, because it works outside the parameters of the state and the rule of law in our country. We are a constitutional democracy.
Mbalula said people have the right to protest, but not to take the law into their own hands and give us a terrible image that there is no state in South Africa.
"Vigilantes and groupings do as they wish. So the state must lead and provide leadership. So there will be reflection on that, and you will see at the end a more refined approach by the NEC will emerge."