We all called for a war on crime in South Africa. Well, we got a war. What we however have is not a war on crime but a war between two law enforcement agencies, i.e. the South African Police Services and the Scorpions. While crime is rampant, we are fighting each other. First the SAPD invades in numbers the house of Adv Nel of the Scorpions, arrest and detain him over night. The the National Commissioner of Police and head of Interpol tries to pre-empt the Scorpions’ plans to arrest and prosecute him for corruption and defeating the ends of justice by making application to court to prevent the Scorpions from carrying out their plans. Can you believe what you are seeing?!
What is becoming blatantly clear in South Africa is that the ruling party - the ANC - as well as the government have no problem whatsoever with crime. Being inclined to criminal activity, committing crime and being saddled with a criminal record thereafter - all this are of no consequence. It does not featured as a consideration when a criminal is considered for an appointment. Being a convicted criminal, to a certain extent, rather adds to the ‘merit’ of such a person. Consider
- Tony Yengene:- convicted for fraud and presently out on parole. He has now been elected to the most senior structures of the ANC.
- The Minister of Health: She was appointed as such while Mbeki was perfectly aware that she was convicted for theft in Botswana.
- Mr Jacob Zuma: He stands to be prosecuted for the most serious of crimes but notwithstanding he is elected as the president of the ANC
- A senior diplomat in the Department of Foreign Affairs whose name now slips my mind - has been accused by a number of women of sexual harassment. If my mind serves me right, he was even found guilty in one or other forum on these charges. He however is protected by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and held an important office.
These are but a few examples of a general attitude. When people complain towards the Minister of Police about crime he tells them that they should leave the country if they are not satisfied. When Mbeki was approached recently about the crime statistics, he denies that there is a problem and describe it as a ‘populist’ perception.
These people have no problems with crime and criminals. They themselves are criminals or their best friends are criminals or they hope to benefit from some criminality. This is why they do not fight crime but much rather the law enforcement that has successfully serves justice.
This reminds me of some articles that appeared in newspapers and blogs some weeks ago in which it was reported that Mr Thabo Mbeki said ‘This white person thinks I can’t do the job …‘ (Mark Gevisser - Mail and Globe - 25 December 2007)I, for one, can now record that it is precisely what I and millions of other South Africans think of him and his whole government. Psychologically and morally they are not qualified to govern a non-racial, democratic society based on the Rule of Law.
This very characteristics exhibited by Thabo Mbeki and other political leaders today are all to well known in Africa. Mugabe murdered tens of thousands of Matabeles to defeat Joshua Nkomo and to secure his hold on power. In South Africa colonialism intervened when tribes (especially in Zululand) were busy annihilating each other. Are they now to continue where they left off? The confrontation between Mbeki and Zuma spells nothing good for South Africa.
I further think that Mbeki and his government’s attitude towards crime and non-blacks are now showing up an imbalance in his personality that is rather disturbing. Are we ruled by mad people?
What bothers me most is that this psychological condition is not only present in the top leadership. Its everywhere and in all walks of life present where black leadership has taken over. They do not just refuse to accept anything a non-black may say. They willfully do the opposite – even if it is negative and destructive.
I once read a story by Edgar Allen Poe in which the inmates of a asylum took over the institution and locked all the staff up. When officials from outside came to visit, they could initially find nothing wrong. The ‘inmates’ protested that they were not the mad ones but this was quite normal and the reaction you would expect from mad people.
Is this what is going on in South Africa today? Have the people of South Africa been delivered into the hands and the mercy of crime sympathizers and lunatics?
J.C.Grobler.
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