Crime is a crisis - not just a "problem"

[jontyB]

Sunday Times headline article:

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/articles/article.aspx?ID=ST6A210389

THIS coming weekend the high minds of the ANC’s leadership will gather for their regular National Executive Committee meeting. On their agenda will be important policy matters, organisational issues and lots of discussion about the presidential ambitions of the country’s favourite karaoke performer.

Very low on the agenda, if at all, will be South Africa’s out-of-control crime situation.

The reason for this is that the ruling party and the government it controls merely see crime as a problem, not the crisis that it is.

Like the proverbial ostrich, they refuse to accept that this country is under siege from criminals. They seem to believe that it is a problem affecting pampered whingers in Sandton, Durban North and Claremont, forgetting that the residents of places like Tembisa, Manenberg and Clermont are as much at the receiving end.

 

[Syndyre]

The problem is the ANC's so entrenched politically they can pretty much do whatever they want. Anywhere else this would be a major scandal with minister's resigning etc.

 

[love56k]

Sunday Times headline article:

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/articles/article.aspx?ID=ST6A210389

just adding the second half of that article as it just has to be read by all (some ppl don't click on links due to the cap)

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excellent suggestion, sunday times!!

 

[ic]

While we strongly disagree with the learned judge’s views on the death penalty, we concur that, as with Aids, the government’s response to crime amounts to a gross dereliction of duty.

There is no author mentioned for this article or editorial, so I have to assume that the Sunday Times [as an entity] does not support the death penalty, which is then the opinion of the Sunday Times, and one that the Sunday Times is entitled to, but the use of the word "we" is perhaps ambiguous bcos it could mean the author(s) are trying to use a Jedi mind trick to convince readers that they too do not support the death penalty...

PS: @love56k, I don't think MyADSL has permission to publish the article in its entirety, and it is the 1st of the month - not many likely to be capped so soon.

 

[love56k]

i, as a member of myadsl, do not represent myadsl as a whole, therefore i should be allowed to risk pasting the whole article and gettting sued by the sunday times, if i want to

But the authorities seem to believe that it is they who are under siege from a mutinous citizenry and have come to regard the public — not the criminals — as the enemy.

Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has become increasingly arrogant and unaccountable, believing that it is fine to yell statistics at us once a year.

This newspaper would like to suggest that, in-between the mandatory back-stabbing sessions at this weekend’s gathering, the ANC’s high-ups reserve some time for an
in-depth discussion on this crisis.

ps. ppl worried about being capped don't only think about it toward the end of the month, at least not those with some sense.