Winkelspruit lawlessness
Why do we even have laws and a justice system.
EDITOR – Lawlessness reigns.
Why do we even have laws and a justice system when drug dealing and prostitution is openly being practiced in Mayors Mews next to the Sizakala Municipality. This is occurring daily behind the DSM Mall (across the road from the municipality) and also next to the municipality perimeter wall.
Indeed at least one tent has been erected there in the bush where illegal business is being practiced with the full awareness of the Toti SAPS, Metro Police and councillor André Beetge, and all the other well-known security companies in Toti. The same SAPS and security companies who reportedly (as per South Coast Sun of 18 October) ‘raided’ the area mentioned earlier this month all to no avail.
In fact it seems this reported raid was just window dressing because it’s business as usual there. In fact the drug dealers, prostitutes and their customers have not missed a single beat after the so-called raid. Foot traffic is in and out of the bush all day and night, every single day, as usual.
In fact even the police are visiting there every day either going into the bush to the tent themselves, or waiting on the road until one of the bush dwellers come out to see them. This all taking place in the bush next to the perimeter wall of the municipality in an area of Toti where we are trying to conduct a decent and civilised society.
We see people of all ages and races going to make their purchases in the bush there, even school children. What are we as a society to do if we cannot even turn to the SAPS for assistance in trying to root out crime? Where should we turn? We have previously phoned Amanzimtoti SAPS about this drug dealing/ prostitution situation, but without so much as a flicker of interest were referred to the Metro Police and then, speaking to the Metro Police, referred back to Amanzimtoti SAPS. We have contacted Beetge too, but it is all to no avail. Absolutely nothing has been achieved.
Should we just accept now that we live in a lawless society because the scum drug dealers and prostitutes have rights too? You have rights when you’re a decent human being anything less and you lose those rights. Should we just accept that they can shack up anywhere they please and conduct their vile trade and the rest of society should just stand back and allow them to practice their right to do as they please?
No, I should think not, if they are blatant criminals. It could be your own child buying drugs and what about the eventual decline in property values when a well-established squatter camp is flourishing there? Is there any unit of the SAPS/ Metro Police who is prepared to and able to stand up and come forward and root out these criminals once and for all – a unit which will stop the crime instead of just reacting to it. Just reacting to it and giving the criminals a pat on the back is called window dressing – reacting just to be able to say that ‘we have reacted’.
But still nothing has been achieved. Is there any unit of the police force that is able to actually achieve something? Anyone can go to the area mentioned at night and see what is happening. This is horrifying thinking that we have to live like this and despicable to think what our society has come to.
Not even to mention the lack of hygiene living in the bush. Filthy. As law abiding citizens we call on law enforcement to act on our concerns, as they should do. Where law enforcement are aware of the drug dealing hot spot raids should be conducted on a regular basis protecting our decent neighborhoods from becoming slumps. I challenge law enforcement to act decisively on our concerns, not just to utter mere words.
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