Academics and students from the University of Cape Town gather outside parliament to picket against gender-based violence on September 4 2019. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES/ ESA ALEXANDER
The crime against the young UCT student who was attacked and killed while picking up the post, alongside the shooting and killing of boxing champion Leighandre “Baby Lee” Jegels on Friday by a man serving as a police officer, is worthy of nationwide outrage. There’s no reason for us to replay the debates, though it’s worth noting that the lack of the death penalty in the UK doesn’t make it a centre of violent crime. In the US, rare among developed countries in embracing this sort of punishment, the possibility of being executed doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for those who would use guns to kill en masse.
In keeping with how the government has bungled communication on key issues of concern to the populace in the most recent past, the department backtracked in a statement later on Tuesday, saying all that Lamola meant was if the issue is brought to the Cabinet it would have to discuss it.Otherwise, it’s hard to argue against the points made in the statement detailing the legal and moral cases against the reinstatement of the judicial killings.
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