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The cure for crime
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.
27 May 2024
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The Free Market Foundation Rule of Law Project presents the Section 12 Initiative for a #SaferSouthAfrica
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.
Codifying all the conceivable conduct for which someone might be liable for a criminal record, a fine, or imprisonment, is an important, definitional place, to start.
The FMF’s proposed codification of South African criminal law.
Protecting people from criminals is one thing; protecting them from themselves quite another. Like all victimless crime laws, these laws only make matters worse.
Eliminating these pseudo-crimes would also help ease the burden on the courts, and free up space in prison for genuine criminals.
Zakhele Mthembu was featured on Briefly on the FMF’s call for criminal justice reform.
Zakhele Mthembu was featured on EWN on the FMF’s call for criminal justice reform.
We are concerned that Correctional Services itself might not possess the requested particulars, which means our prisons service does not exactly know who it is imprisoning and for what reason.
It is safe to say that the South African state is failing at fulfilling their end of the responsibility. The crime rate and the conviction rate are a testament to this.
Decriminalise the state by eliminating bad laws, like BEE, that enable syndicates to flourish and bad rulers to enrich themselves.