The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa will tomorrow engage with communities, business leaders, CPFs, civic organisations as well as the representatives from other government departments such as Correctional Services and Justice and Constitutional Development; in dealing with the recent emergence of mob justice or “necklacing of criminals” around the Eastern Cape province.
The ministry’s stance in fighting crime is that South Africa has laws which must be respected without fail, all the time. We equally need to ensure that our laws favour citizens, while dealing a blow to criminals.
“Whilst the rights of all citizens need to be protected as entrenched in our Constitution, rights of criminals must not supersede those of law-abiding citizens. We need to advocate that society must not take the law into their hands; their task is to report these criminals to the police. Police must then take over and do the right thing, which is to make life very, very difficult for these criminals,” stated the Minister.
Details of the meeting are as follows:
Date: Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Venue: Xaba Hall, corner 20th Avenue & Maduna Road, KwaLanga, Uitenhage
Time: 17h00
For directions to the venue please contact Mkhevu 073 125 3747 or Vuyo 078 661 0592.
All members of the media are invited.
For enquiries, please contact:
Zweli Mnisi, Spokesperson to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Police
Cell: 082 045 4024
