reflects on the recent confrontation between police minister Bheki Cele and activist Ian Cameron, writing that if Cele wants the police to win the war on crime, it cannot be 'business as usual'.
This set off a bizarre rant by Cele, who seemed to be channelling former President PW Botha, waving his forefinger indignantly as he raged at Cameron. He accused Cameron of regarding him as a 'garden boy,' although Cameron had addressed Cele only as 'sir' and 'mister'. Cele also brought up his struggle credentials, saying that he had spent time on Robben Island to bring human rights to South Africans .
Instead of looking to the future, it looks to a glorious past . And at the same time, it often points to South Africa's history of racist exclusion and discrimination to distract attention from its own failures. While some of South Africa's problems are certainly a legacy of colonialism and apartheid, the further we move away from 1994, the clearer it becomes that many of the issues in this country today are because of the ANC's failures.
And South Africans are increasingly distrustful of the police. Various surveys show that fewer people each year report crimes to the police, partly because of a lack of trust, and also because people simply do not believe that the police will even solve the reported crime. A survey conducted by polling company Afrobarometer asked South Africans about their levels of trust in seventeen institutions.
MariusCRoodt I will always advise brown people to vote for the ANC but fight it to correct.see how bad your CR17 that you prepared for your advantage's brought the country down🤷♂️gives you nd Indians everything but not brown people🤦♂️all you did with your media was lies on so called capture
MariusCRoodt It's confrontation when it's whites, intimidation and heckling when it's blacks...I find it amazing how whites and white media tolerate corruption,racism,bad service and failures even crimes as long as it benefits whites/WMC,committed by whites/WMC or whites/WMC are to blame
MariusCRoodt TRUTH must be told, we are a hurt nation. Especially, us who experienced oppression. Even though we wish to move on, when our space is challenged we become defensive. Bornfree, sixolelenisilimele🇿🇦
MariusCRoodt Bheki Celery is more interested in fashionable hats than fighting crime. And when his failings are pointed out to him, he typically plays the race card like his cadre deployment comrades.
MariusCRoodt Bheki Cele's credentials are an almost destructive coup attempt, arson, vandalism, rampant violent crime and a police minister who should have stepped down after the riots... But, here the a-hole stands and the president keeps him, what nonsense is this!