There has to be something seriously abnormal for middle-class South Africans to self-mobilise around the country and assume to the streets in the numbers and manner experienced on 7 April. And while it was the seriousness of one man’s action – his lack of meaningful explanation for his removal of the Finance Minister and his Deputy – that triggered the public’s arouse, it was the size and swift response of society’s solidarity that took the nation and those in authority by surprise.
Source: dailymaverick.co.za