Well, hell! It's such a beautiful country, the weather is great, the views are stunning - so what can we do to stuff it up completely? Apart from trying to ensure the extinction of our wildlife heritage, I mean? We're doing quite well at sport (in some areas), the economy could be worse (disregard the major amount of skimming that takes place - especially in the Government), so what else? How about crime stats? Well, THEY are or were coming down in most areas, so we might end up as not being at the head of the table when the new worldwide stats are released & we do like being first!
Soooo, firstly (some time back) we got rid of the Scorpions - their arrest rate & conviction % was rather high. Then we establish the Hawks. Oops! They seem to be a tad over-zealous in some provinces so let's carve them up a bit 'cos some of our best buddies are being targetted (can't have that 'cos they might start talking about the wrong things to the wrong people & then the brown stuff is gonna hit the fan). Oh yeah, what about the Durban Organised Crime Unit? Especially the Kwamashu Violent Crimes Unit, hmm? Now there's a place we can REALLY make a difference! Get rid of them both or at least cut them down to size & voila! Back to the top of the tree again as far as murders, rapes, child abuse, drug trafficking, cash-in-transit heists & just plain old robberies go. and please diregard the fact that the 'evidence' for this action is comming from people who were & are under investigation for criminal activities.
And now in another newspaper report, apparently quoting a senior police officer, it has apparently been noted that since the disbanding of the Kwamashu unit, there has been a notable increase in cash-in-transit & shop based robberies. Go figure, while the ANC spends another bucket of cash on their 100 year celebrations!
