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Gang feuds must end
Communities need to work towards providing positive male role models, social clubs, and better alternatives to gangs for local youths.
17 July 2024
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The Free Market Foundation Rule of Law Project presents the Section 12 Initiative for a #SaferSouthAfrica
Communities need to work towards providing positive male role models, social clubs, and better alternatives to gangs for local youths.
It is thus understandable that more laws and rules have evolved. However, we appear to have over-corrected in many spheres.
It seems to me that the courts are closing off all legal avenues to peacefully addressing the phenomenon of politicians inciting their followers to commit grave injustices.
The most basic purpose of government, and the reason society gives up its unbridled liberty to grant the state a monopoly on coercive force, is to secure common protection against violent threats to lives and property.
Smoking isn’t a real crime. It is bad for your health. But so is fast food, not exercising, and voting for the ANC.
Many of us presume that when a crime is committed, the perpetrator will just get away with it.
Based on official statistics and the fact of unreported cases, anecdotally, the crime situation seems to be approaching apocalyptic proportions.
Corruption is endemic in the SAPS, with petty bribery being endemic across the force, and personnel even selling vast amounts of weapons to gangsters.
Corrupt police and military personnel are responsible for selling an exorbitant amount of firearms to gangsters.
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.