Publication: The Witness
Issued:
Date: 2006-12-07
Reporter: John Gardener
Reporter:
| Publication |
The Witness
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| Date |
2006-12-07 |
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Reporter
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John
Gardener |
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Web Link
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www.witness.co.za
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I
am bewitched, baffled and bewildered by the mixed messages emanating from the
cluster of departments responsible for the administration of law and order and
the alleged rehabilitation of offenders.
Criminals such as Shabir Shaik
and Tony Yengeni are shepherded into cosy little compartments and afforded every
courtesy, despite oft repeated assurances that they are being treated no
differently from other prisoners. In Yengeni’s case, the only thing missing when
he was incarcerated was a full parliamentary choir and a rousing rendition of
For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow!
Following the recapture of Annanias Mathe,
however, Correctional Services minister Ngconde Balfour was quoted as saying
that the prisoner would be closely guarded by “the worst
bastard warders *1” in the department and that he will be transferred to
Kokstad prison where he will “rot forever *1”.
So much for equal treatment!
This grovelling, at the feet of
Yengeni in particular, is yet another demonstration of the full farce that is the law *1.
John
Gardener
Underberg (by e-mail)
With acknowledgements to John
Gardener and The Witness.
*1 This is not the legal system,
but the correctional services system.
The law is a ass, but correctional
services is an arse.