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Media verklaring - 6 Oktober 2022
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Suid-Afrikaners en toeriste word misdaadstatistieke terwyl 209 BBP politici vir 24 uur ʼn dag beskerm word teen ʼn koste van R2 Miljard
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Verklaring deur Jan Bosman,
Hoofsekretaris van die Afrikanerbond
Suid-Afrikaners en toeriste word misdaadstatistieke terwyl 209 BBP politici vir 24 uur ʼn dag beskerm word teen ʼn koste van R2 Miljard
Die week is Suid-Afrikaners weer geruk deur nog sinnelose moorde. Die moord op die Duitse toeris, plaasmoorde en aanvalle is alles deel van die daaglikse statistiek. ʼn Minister besoek die misdaadtoneel en ander predik vir die wêreld dat toeriste in die land veilig is en dat nog net drie in die land vermoor is. Dit terwyl 71 Suid-Afrikaners daagliks vermoor word kan geen minister die versekering gee dat die land se mense of besoekers aan die land veilig is nie. Dit skets ʼn prentjie van ʼn regering wat tred met realiteite verloor het.
Ons grootste bekommernis is dat die slagoffers – ook toeriste - met verloop van tyd, maar net nog misdaadstatistieke word. ʼn Top toeristebestemming in ʼn Kaapse strand by Kampsbaai het gister die moord op 2 mense in helder daglig moes aanskou. Dit is maklik om onverskillig en traak-my-nie-agtig met misdaad en sy gevolge om te gaan as ʼn mens 24 uur ʼn dag beskerming ontvang. Terwyl ʼn verdere R2 Miljard in 2022 spandeer word aan BBP polisieskerming - vir die president, 28 ministers en 34 adjunk-ministers, parlementêre speaker en voorsitter en nege premiers, nege provinsiale speakers en adjunkte sowel as 87 LUR’Re belewe die gemiddelde Suid-Afrikaner ʼn lae intensiteit misdaadoorlog. (Sien berig hieroor)
Verlede jaar is bereken dat dit sowat R8 miljoen vir elke individuele BBP aan beskerming kos met 209 BBP’s wat beskerming ontvang. (Sien berig hieroor)
Die vraag moet egter gevra word: Wat moet nog gebeur alvorens die Suid-Afrikaanse regering daadwerklik optree? Misdaad, wetteloosheid en die gepaardgaande kommer oor die verval van die strafregstelsel in Suid-Afrika en die sabotasie van infrastruktuur bereik nou ‘n keerpunt.
Dit is nodig vir ʼn indringende besinning oor die totale misdaadsituasie in Suid-Afrika want elke strategie van die regering teen misdaad, het tot dusver skouspelagtig misluk. Nuwe planne kan egter nie werk indien daar nie vertroue is in die polisieminister en sy polisie leierstruktuur nie. Die Suid-Afrikaanse publiek verdien minstens ʼn onkreukbare polisiediens in die tydperk waar misdaad en korrupsie gedy. Dit kan slegs geskied met leierskap wat verbind is daartoe om misdaad te bestry. ʼn Besoek aan ʼn misdaadtoneel alleen gaan nie help nie. Beloftes alleen bring ook nie oplossings nie en effektiewe en sigbare polisiëring met integriteit word vereis.
6 Oktober 2022
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Statement by Jan Bosman
Chief Secretary of the Afrikanerbond
South Africans and tourists become crime statistics while 209 VIP politicians are protected 24 hours a day at a cost of R2 billion
This week, South Africans were once again shaken by yet more senseless murders. The murder of the German tourist, farm murders and attacks are all part of the daily statistics. A minister visits the crime scene while others preach to the world that tourists are safe in the country and that only three have been murdered so far. While 71 South Africans are being murdered daily, no minister can give the assurance that either our people or visitors to our country are safe. It paints a picture of a government that has lost track of reality.
Our biggest concern is that the victims — including tourists — become, over time, just more crime statistics. People at Camps Bay, a top tourist destination, yesterday had to witness the murder of two persons in broad daylight. It is easy to dismiss crime and its consequences offhandedly when one receives protection 24 hours a day. While a further R2 billion is being spent in 2022 on VIP police protection — for the president, 28 ministers and 34 deputy ministers, the parliamentary speaker and chairperson and nine prime ministers, nine provincial speakers and deputies as well as 87 MECs — the average South African is caught up in a low-intensity crime war (see report on this). It was calculated last year that the annual cost to protect each individual VIP amounts to some R8 million, with 209 VIPs receiving protection (see report on this).
However, the question that should be asked is this: What else needs to happen before the South African government will act? Crime and lawlessness and associated concerns about the decay of the criminal justice system in South Africa and the sabotage of infrastructure are now reaching a tipping point.
An incisive reflection on the entire crime situation in South Africa is required because so far, each government strategy against crime has failed spectacularly. However, new plans cannot work if there is no trust in either the police minister or his police leadership structure. At the very least, the South African public deserves an unimpeachable police service in this period of rampant crime and corruption. That can only happen with leadership that is committed to fighting crime. A mere visit to a crime scene is not going to help. Promises alone do not bring solutions either, and effective and visible policing with integrity is required.
6 October 2022
