EFF STATEMENT ON CRIME STATISTICS: ECONOMIC FREEDOM IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO THE RISE OF CRIME
29 September 2015
The EFF is not shocked at the deteriorating levels of public order and policing reflected by crime statistics as announced by government and SAPS today. 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.
The statistics were being announced by already two morally degenerate individuals. One is the police commissioner who presided over the killing of workers in Marikana. How can Riah Phiyega stop murder when she herself is a number one murderer of workers? Two is Minister Nhleko who presided over the coverup of the greatest corruption scandal involving an individual and sitting state president in the history of South Africa. How can Nhleko stop robberies when he actively, in full view of the public protects the number 1 thief in South Africa, Jacob Zuma?
The EFF has no expectations on this government to address crime because it is led by the African National Criminals who through their degenerate leadership of corruption are normalizing theft and undoing the rule of law. To address the rising levels of crime the country needs to make two kinds of decisions; one is to remove the ANC and power because it has failed and will only lead us 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.