Statistics reveal South Africans as ‘an angry people’: EFF

SOUTH AFRICA – The high levels of crime as reported in the latest statistics released in Parliament on Tuesday “tell the story of our collective emotional status as a people” and reveal South Africans as “an angry people who have accepted violence as the norm”.

Reacting to the statistics‚ the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said the party was not shocked at the deteriorating levels of public order and policing.

The EFF had no expectations of government addressing crime because it was led by the “African National Criminals who through their degenerate leadership of corruption are normalising theft and undoing the rule of law”.

“In a country of so much inequalities‚ unemployment‚ exploitation and the general moral degeneration reflected by those who lead the state‚ taking the law into one’s hands has becomes the norm‚” EFF national spokesman Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi said in a statement.

To address the rising levels of crime the country needed to make two kinds of decisions; one was to remove the African National Congress (ANC) from power because it had failed and would only lead the country into further crisis.

“Two‚ we must address the socioeconomic conditions that have produced a situation of the lack of opportunities‚ hunger and unemployment in the face of first world wealth and development.

“These levels of crime also tell the story of our collective emotional status as a people. They reveal South Africans as an angry people who have accepted violence as the norm.

“The statistics on aggravated crimes which have increased by 6.9 % are above all else‚ a demonstration of this fact as they include contact crime‚ normally of people who know each other or inhabit the same communities.”

The EFF said the rise in murder was most important.

“The EFF cautions about treating the police as an exceptional case as if they are not part of society. To address the crucial matter of murder increases amongst them separate from the general increase of murder in society will not resolve the situation. Instead‚ it will continue to mobilise them against society which they are always already part of.

“The rise in murder must be placed squarely at the door of police leadership. They taught and inculcated the ‘killing’ or ‘shoot to kill’ as a modus operandi of resolving disputes.

“To heal this situation only economic freedom is the answer.”

The EFF said many of the crime were “crimes of people trying to eat. They are not crimes of greed. To address them‚ more policing will not work‚ only economic freedom based on radical transformation of property ownership will help.

“We have to lead an aggressive process of industrial expansion to create more and sustainable jobs. Increasing police‚ paying them better or giving them more guns will only lead to cosmetic changes.” RDM News Wire