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In any sane democracy this government would have been unelected and ridiculed at the ballot box, Nicholas Woode-Smith.
In any sane democracy this government would have been unelected and ridiculed at the ballot box, Nicholas Woode-Smith.
Mlungisi Louw

When last did the SA government under the ANC show any real concern for the brutal and unacceptable violent crime, gangsterism and lawlessness that infest this country?

The ANC shows more concern for insincere accusations levelled against Israel, enforcing patronising racial quotas in businesses through BEE, and destroying our healthcare system through the proposed NHI.

In any sane democracy this government would have been unelected and ridiculed at the ballot box. The prime mandate of a government is to defend the citizenry of a country from foreign threats, but also from lawlessness, criminals and violence.

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