remarked that it was unprecedented in democratic South Africa for the SAPS to release crime stats without tabling its annual report.
Over and above, this pattern has emerged that indicates that South Africa’s regional and district courts are barely functioning while shoddy investigations and cock-ups by prosecutors have resulted in a whopping 103,760 criminal cases being simply withdrawn.It seems officialdom’s definition of service delivery to crime survivors includes not prosecuting,” Merten opined.but the retired judge’s thoughts have not received wider media exposure.
The country had also been distracted from the “duties of efficient, publicly-directed governance and institutional build, distracted from important moral debates about crime and punishment” and that crime had become rampant “because of corrupt and incompetent policing and police intelligence”.current criminal justice system is so ineffective and counterproductive that the country found itself “in a frightening vortex”, said Cameron.
What needed to be improved was “competence, responsiveness and skill. We must restore crime intelligence, unmask criminal syndicates and improve the turnover in the National Prosecuting Authority . We need, at a neighbourhood level, police responsiveness and competence.” He pointed to the example fo the “highly practical” recommendation of Justice Kate O’Regan’s Khayelitsha Commission Report.None [of the recommendations] have been implemented… in a township where the murder rate is 71 per 100,000 people, against a national rate of 33 per 100,000 and three per 100,000 in New York.
He said former Minister Dullah Omar’s appointment of a committee of the South African Law Reform Commission had offered a “glimmer of hope” but that “the new government didn’t wait for the report”.
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