[I received this badly scanned image from the front page of a newspaper. I struggled but could not get it to look better. But at least its readable.

I am actually glad this thief was killed like this. He was stealing electrical wires from our railway system. You have no idea the scale on which this is happening. They are stealing and vandalising our railway system to DESTRUCTION. A friend told me of people he knows on the railways. They told him of an entire railway station being stolen over a weekend. Yes, you heard me correctly. He was involved in various projects where they also had to set up cameras to monitor things. They had to build the cameras into concrete housings or else they’d be stolen.

These are township dwellers who killed him. There are stacks of these kids on drugs, and they steal and terrorise the township communities. The Police do not help… and these kids also murder… So these people just beat him up and threw him in front of a moving train. But crime in this country is out of control. In the Cape alone are 130 gangs with a membership of 100,000. I can understand the desperation of many in this country. For crime to be eradicated we need a firm hand. Many times these vigilante groups are the closest thing we have to justice – accidental justice – because the normal legal system is merely a turnstile. As they come in, so they walk out. Jan]