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Original Post Date: 2007-03-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Finally, a bit of sanity emerging from the mouths of the opposition. We make too many excuses for “poverty”. The ANC brought more poverty to the already poor blacks than they ever knew. The ANC’s stance is that poverty is an excuse to do anything. This should be nipped in the bud too. Jan]
By Zama Feni
Criminals who continue to hold the country to ransom should never use poverty as the fundamental reason for their gruesome deeds, opposition parties said.
During a debate on whether crime breeds poverty organised by the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) at the SABC auditorium in Sea Point, Cape Town on Monday, Nadeco chairperson Hawu Mbatha said “poverty is one of the contributing factors to crime, but the basic reason is that the nation has lost its moral integrity”.
Though the meeting was intended for all the opposition parties in the National Assembly, only the ACDP, UDM, Federal Democrats (FD), United People of South Africa (UPSA), Progressive Independent Movement (PIM) managed to arrive.
| ‘Wave of crime disturbs the social fabric’ |
Mbatha said that as South Africa tried to find its way to controlling crime, the South African criminal justice system “should investigate itself and where it had lost the plot – the citizens are living in a very terrible state of crime where the nation is at war with itself”.
He said a considerable number of South Africans coming from very poor backgrounds had managed to make the best out of themselves.
Mbatha said government should allocate its resources in a “biased” manner for the less privileged communities as the wave of crime disturbed the social fabric.
“In most cases, it’s a matter of options at the person’s disposal – some choose to achieve the best and others choose the bad,” said Mbatha.
ACDP MP Steve Swart said the country’s prisons might be full to the brim, but “not all those languishing behind bars had been there because of poverty – have others raped because they are hungry?”
| ‘Have others raped because they are hungry?’ |
Swart said this country needed a very strong criminal justice system with a very strong deterrent for crimes committed.
“We are in a country where criminals know that they can easily get away with their actions – for them (criminals) crime pays,” he said.
UDM MP Jackson Bici said the poorest people, especially those in the rural hinterlands, were the worst affected by the shortcomings of the police and the whole criminal justice system.