Today our guest is Institute for Security Studies Researcher Johan Burger.

A report into the unrest commissioned by the president says South Africa’s police and intelligence services failed to anticipate and disrupt days of arson and looting last year in which more than 300 people died.

• The report by the experts concluded that there was a significant intelligence failure to anticipate, prevent or disrupt the planned and orchestrated violence.
• It continues to add that the combination of poorly equipped police stations and inadequately trained police resulted in the police being overwhelmed and not being able to deploy sufficient and properly trained and equipped officers.
• The violence was sparked by the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma for defying a court order to testify at a corruption inquiry and fanned by anger over the poverty and inequality that persist almost three decades after the end of apartheid
• The government deployed soldiers to restore calm, but around R50 billion of damage was caused by one estimate as shops were ransacked and key infrastructure targeted.