Ravin Maraj of KwaDukuza writes:
The proliferation of private-security companies is an ominous portent of iniquitous crime.
The public is not impervious to criminal activity necessitating fortification of homes and businesses.
Sharia law or capital punishment stymie heinous crimes.
However, these modus operandi are abhorrent in a modern democracy.
Simultaneously, adherence to prevailing law is counter-productive in subverting perverse crimes.
It is, therefore, imperative that the government ruminates on the imposition of stringent-punitive measures against the perpetrators of execrable crimes.
The implementation of austere measures will circumvent lenient sentences being meted out against violent abusers of women and children, rapists, murderers, human traffickers, drug-cartels and other activity considered as heinous.
1. Criminal lawyers should be given no prospect of successfully defending perpetrators, by astute state prosecutors.
2. Station commanders should ensure the officers assigned to investigate said crimes do not mar such probes.
3. These despicable criminals should be excommunicated from society. This entails divesting them of their constitutional rights.
4. Life sentences should be imposed and they should be precluded from presidential pardon.
5. These criminals should be imprisoned in maximum security prisons.
White collar criminals and corrupt individuals should also be treated with disdain by the law irrespective of material wealth or political affiliation.
We are all equal before the law.
Propriety will be restored if these measures, among others, are considered.
Future generations will judge the ruling party and government by their deeds.
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