This business of Justice minister Mabandla announcing that she wants to dump the Scorpions has a Trojan horse feel to it.
In the same way that our society will be better off with some competition for Telkom in the fixed line business and we all agree on that [excepting for the Telkom crew] it is good for our democracy for the SAPS to have some formal [and obviously unwanted] competition.
The fact that the SAPS is unhappy with the independent nature of the Scorpions seems to be a perfect reason to continue their independence-Do we really want another all powerful John Vorster type minister of Police and interrogation services?
Who ever heard of a bureaucrat wanting to get rid of part of their portfolio anyway-it seems unnatural. As to tensions between the SAPS and the Scorpions undermining the country's security this seems a spurious argument that would be hard to rationalise on any reasonable history of democratic precedents.Competition is always healthy for the body politic.
Most of us are not overly impressed with the general performance of the Police Services anyway, most of the time: what with the perrenial inevitable "lost docket" game, intermittent regular reports of corrupt practices and varied interpretations of justice according to status in society-not to mention stumbling around over all the clues so often it becomes embarassing...Viva Scorpions.
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I'll repeat an earlier comment:
Apparently, the Scorpions are recruited from Apartheid-era informants, and all sorts of nasty elements and despicable characters from the old guard. The Vice-President has just been replaced by the wife of the Scorpion agent who headed the investigation against the Vice-President. (Allow me this conspiracy).The SAPS will obviously lose the competition.
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I like what you said NiK and I beg to differ from By Fcuk The System at Fri, 07/10/2005 - 21:59 |, I know where they recruit from and it is not as you state it. I would like to agree with you, but then you must not generalize to this extend, be more specific. I also miss Zuma as Vice president, but he has not been judged yet in a court of law. This will be a great milestone in our democracy. Spatially the day our leader is acquitted.
I am Anthony Whiteman and The Truth Will Prevail
Where are they recruited from then?
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"...The media are, effectively, corporations that sell privilleged audiences to other businesses, and naturally, we would expect them to reflect the perspectives of the sellers, the buyers and the product..." - Noam Chomsky
Now that would be telling...No I think not.. Not this whiteman, but they are cleaning the system and that is all that matters. Same as bean counters working for SARS. You can run but you cannot hide...
I am Anthony Whiteman and The Truth Will Prevail
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