I was not surprised when I saw the video that has been doing rounds of the police in uniforms dragging a Mozambican fellow behind their van, seeking to execute him Steve Biko style. But what is more hard-hitting is the fact that the government and the national Police Commissioner continue to do the talking, and not the action.
How many more people must suffer abuse at the hands of police, while the authorities continue to "probe" or "investigate"? How long does it take to investigate he who is in the blue uniform and how long for an ordinary man? Because I know some people who have been wrongfully sent to prison for crimes they never committed? The probes or investigations there went so fast, you almost thought there was never an investigation.
I said, a while ago in this blog, that the police run this country and I received varying responses, yet behold the truth I spoke then.
Rapists and Murderers
I know that South Africa is supposed to be the model from which other nations must learn when it comes to democracy and human rights, but man, we seem to have too many of those (rights) doing the rounds. How many times have our women been raped? How many children have been raped in the years we have attained our democracy alone? Scores of defenseless women, children and men are being killed and raped and nowadays, mutilated, and yet the perpetrators of such crimes continue to walk, talk and sleep among us. They are afforded opportunities to learn and study while in prison (doing a punishment), and then the society is urged to "give them a second chance", just before they are released on some form of a parole or the other.
The ANC person who said rapists, as it is in the Philippines, must be chemically castrated, brought forth the best suggestion to this problem. This will call for more accurate and instantaneous investigation, prosecuting and convicting of criminals. This will bring back the fear: fear that your very ability to populate the earth shall be taken away from you, should you be found to have committed such atrocities.
The question of the death sentence has also been lingering about, with human rights institutions warning it might be inhumane to slaughter those who kill people. I think common sense must be applied here: that he who kills will face the same destiny too. Families have been left distraught because their fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters and other friends are mercilessly slaughtered by people whose regard for the law in next to none. An effective and dreadful measure must be taken to ensure that no more of this killing takes place.
Government Expenditure
I am not much an accountant but I know when money is being wasted. The reports by Sowetan Online (March 4) newspaper that the Free State government has spent R140m on a website, is a blatant disrespect to the public. I have seen guys do this much cheaper, in fact, with that amount of money I could have myself 50 websites running. The South African public ( and I am not talking about the rich guys, I am talking about the ordinary guys who earn no more than R50 000 a year) must take action. Just as the public takes action with regards to the crazy expenditure patterns, it must be allow to deal with the rapists and the murderers.
The Government Must:
- Fire the Police Chiefs (Nathi Mthethwa and Riah Phiyega)
- Introduce a jail term for expenditure unaccounted for (It is criminal that they can't account for our money)
- Introduce chemical castration as a measure to address the issue of repeating rapists
- Hang the murderers
- Bring the power to the community, if all fails. Let the communities deal with their criminals in their own way (and we have seen how that goes, with people being necklaced and placed upon the fires of hell)
This is my 2 cents, have your say.
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