DA wants ‘petty’ apartheid-era crimes expunged

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CAPE TOWN — The Democratic Alliance has tabled a private member’s bill seeking to expunge from the record crimes committed during the apartheid era that would not be crimes today.

The inspiration for the measure came to him from two constituents, DA Correctional Services spokesman James Selfe said in a statement yesterday.

“One wanted a visa to visit his son who had emigrated. This person had been convicted in 1975 under the Immorality Act for having a sexual relationship with a woman of another race, and who, as a result, had been given a suspended prison sentence.

“The other was a man who applied for a job for which a clean criminal conviction record was a prerequisite, but had a criminal conviction for breaking the curfew regulations imposed by the former Transkei.”

Selfe said the proposed bill sought to create a simple mechanism whereby crimes committed under apartheid, “which are not crimes in the democratic society in which we live today”, could be administratively expunged from the record.

“We are not talking here about amnesty or immunity from prosecution for crimes that have not been dealt with by the courts … We are talking about people who have criminal records for crimes that would not be crimes today … ,” he said.

He said when South Africa negotiated a new democratic order, it made provision for a mechanism to deal with crimes committed in the course of advancing the liberation struggle or of repressing it — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process.

“The TRC dealt with those who had been tried and convicted, but required amnesty, or not been tried and convicted for crimes that could have been ‘justified’ in terms of the prevailing political conflict and therefore required immunity from prosecution … This process has run its course.”

But, he said, this issue involves “quite another category of offenders and offences that have not yet satisfactorily been dealt with”.
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http://www.witness.co.za/default.asp?myAction=detail&myRef=55674&myCat=news

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Damn one would have thought they'd sorted this kind of thing out years ago :o
 
The ANC is way too busy expunging crimes their party members are committing TODAY.
 
This stuff doesn't surprise me anymore whatsoever. Typical SA. Typical Banana Republic.

Does it honestly surprise any of you? Think about it.
 
"Mentor's response to this proposal was to say: 'This is the ideology of DA superiority of the white race. Everything they do, you find fault in their argument'.
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What? Can they really just accuse the DA of being white supremists as an argument.. ag.. whatever. I don't actually see how it's even vaguely related, I must be missing something?
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
What? Can they really just accuse the DA of being white supremists as an argument.. ag.. whatever. I don't actually see how it's even vaguely related, I must be missing something?
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No worries Tubby will no doubt enlighten you ;)
 
You know what is even sadder? Mentor's comment does not even make grammatical sense.
I have read it, re-read it, and read it again this morning.
I know what she "meant" to say, but she has a whole spew of words missing.
 
Hilarious really, she thinks she is being all clever:D
ANC drones like like Ms Mentor are just programmed to respond with the usual racist xenophobic rubbish, not to think.
The result of years of free t-shirts and boerie rolls.

Shame have pity on this challenged individual.
 
I'd call Mentor's response typical African arrogance but to be fair to the average African this is more like typical Southern African (to include SA and Zim in the same box) arrogance.
These two countries must have the same mantra "If is White it's not right; if it's Black it'll see the light" regardless of the consequences :(
 
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