The national police commissioner is a Mampara of note, and that
note is off-key and stinks something horrid much
like the unwelcome flatus of a very large and exceptionally
arrogant swine gorging itself at the public trough.
Here, in his
own words is Jackie (“No sh*t, Sherlock”) Selebi doing his best to assure a
country battered by violence that crime is not out of control in South
Africa:
“We do have crime in South Africa. Nobody has ever denied it. But
to exaggerate the point and speak about a crisis ... a crisis means total
disorder.
“I’m sure what we experience, everyone around the world
experiences.”
We’re not so sure. However, we remain convinced that a
steel-tipped boot in the rear would do Plod Selebi a world of good.
With acknowledgement to Sunday Times.
Good, strong words indeed from a newspaper freshly
confident after the self-plucking of that other arrogant foul, Ronald Suresh
Roberts.
One category of crime that is out of control in the RSA is
corruption.
And it is no exaggeration *1 to say that out of control
corruption is the last yard down the slippery slope to the disintegration of
democracy and orderly society, indeed to anarchy..
And what is Selebi
doing to help?
His SAPS has for going on a year been sitting on a Letter
of Request for Mutual Assistance from the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in
connection with massive bribes paid by British Aerospace to win the Hawk lead-in
fighter aircraft deal.
But Selebi is a huge mate of Thabo Mbeki and for
someone with the equivalent rank and commensurate salary and perks of a full
general (including a private jet), but without a day's training in his life in
the core business of law enforcement, is unlikely to shaik his benefactor's
cage.
*1This is what Judge Hilary Squires had to
say about corruption in the Schabir Shaik trial and his sentiments were echoed
in the Supreme Court judgment rejecting Shaik's request for an appeal :
"It is plainly a pervasive and insidious evil, and the interests of a
democratic people and their government require at least its rigorous
suppression, even if total eradication is something of a dream. It is thus not
an exaggeration to say that corruption of the kind in question eats away at the
very fabric of our society and is the scourge of modern democracies."
