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Police must act against lawlessness – ANC

Police must act against lawlessness – ANC

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN the face of video evidence of individuals discharging firearms during the funeral of one of its MPs, the ANC has called on the police to investigate the matter, which it acknowledged was unlawful. Individuals attending the funeral, in Soweto, of Kebby Maphatsoe, who was also a former deputy minister and chairperson of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, discharged firearms, in violation of the law. On Sunday, as speakers paid tribute to Maphatsoe, intermittent gunfire could be heard outside the tent.  Jessie Duarte, the ANC deputy secretary-general, in response to a question during a media…
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‘Our tolerance of illegality, lawlessness and glamourisation of the crooked has come back to bite us’

‘Our tolerance of illegality, lawlessness and glamourisation of the crooked has come back to bite us’

MOSIBUDI MANGENA WHILE those of us who are in the Defend our Democracy Campaign are firm on the primacy of the Constitution and the importance of all of us being equal before the law, it is becoming clearer that the undermining of these principles has been allowed to go on for too long without challenge. Our tolerance of illegality, lawlessness and glamourisation of the crooked over many years has come back to bite us. For many years, people in the taxi industry have been doing all sorts of illegal things, from small things, such as traffic infringements right up to…
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