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Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) president, Chief Lameck Mokoena, has called for a referendum on the death penalty. Mokoena says the killing of women and children in the country is cause for concern.

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Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa president, Chief Lameck Mokoena, has called for a referendum on the death penalty.This follows the arrest of three people who appeared in the Kabokweni Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga on Monday.whose mutilated body was found dumped near her home last Saturday.“The brutal killing of the innocent young girl at Mganduzweni and many other incidences in this country is a cause for concern.

“Unless government comes up with some innovative ideas on how to deal with this thing, our country is becoming a banana republic. We call upon government to call for a referendum to test the will of the people as to whether the death penalty should not be brought back,” adds Mokoena.

 

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Bring back death sentence

I disagree with that completely because we still can improve but we lack leadership in all fronts to effect change as society starting by discussing these minimum sentences like life which are ineffective in terms of curbing crime and be replaced by long sentences like 200 years

After all false rape cases this far, how many released men could have been killed? Should this referendum succeed, very strict rules and processes must be put in place 🤔. Women killing for insurance claims must also be included. Down with all forms of GBV.

He was not sober

I don’t think it shud be via referendum. There should be an evidence based review. What is a priority shud be revamp of policing, enforcement and to some extent the judicial system. Crime seems not to have much consequence in this beautiful land. That needs to be fixed.

I Totally agree on death penalty. But in this country we are facing a serious challenge regarding our System

I can agree on that only if our judiciary can also deal with equality on regard as well, I mean human rights must also be looked into as well because whites to be specific have financial muscles compared to us blacks therefore they can compensate to get away with death penalty

If u support death penalty,we start with u,

U wanna kill innocent men

Thats good, but please make sure police do their job accodingly, because also mens are abused by the females, we heard stories that, when a men abused by female and men run and report that to the police station, the police lough at the men lets take the law both sides. Thank you.

This should have been done 10 years back; and one needs to admit the failure of our government; drugs and firearms are extremely popular in African communities, which indicates that there's no law in SA

The death penalty should include Corruption in Government and Business

This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a literal aristocrat to be saying in 2022!! Completely out of touch, the death penalty will, like in the past, only fall upon those who don't have the money/influence to be above the law, GBV will go 'behind closed doors', e.g metoo

Under ANC government? No.... judges are politicians of a particular faction. Imagine being killed for nothing......

Nah nah bro, something is wrong here. Why is the killing of men not a concern? It's known that men are committing suicide a lot lately, why is that not a concern? Guys!!! No gender is above the other. Why you focusing on women like men are invisible to being killed and all?

I'm all for it, but why only Woman and Children? 🤔

Yes pls, I support this statement

I support

DOODSTRAF!

What about the killing of men. Men are abused and killed too. It is against the law to take someone's life. I can't understand how can Contralesa propose that. They better reconsider their proposal.

I fully agree bring back the death penalty. Replace life imprisonment with death penalty,that will be the punishment of serious offences.

💯% behind,this pandemic of killing our beautiful children and women it's traumatizing every time when news break it's a killings of our women.decisive action Needed period

That I fully support

This is positive progress. 100%. Nobody can be excused or rehabilitated after intentionally raping or killing a child.

Femicide should be punishable by death yes. The unfortunate part is our biased courts and judges who will preside over the cases. Jail the monsters for multiple life sentences without parole in the meantime, until we fix the courts. Sad state of affairs indeed.

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