Festive season has its ugly chapter! The festive season in all countries has been used as a time to reflect on the spirit of love, generosity and togetherness buy many lunatics have spoiled such camaradie by committing unpalatable acts against fellow human beings. Some made travellers to drink concoction to steal their luggage’s, some ‘caused’ dear lives of many travellers through negligence in some instances and others literally caused havoc at community functions on a disguise that they are drunk. Anti-social behaviour cannot be ignore in a state which respects rule of law! One such which is still fresh was the ‘gang-raping’ of a sixteen year old girl at Songwane, Limpopo. How dare so-called people harbour such barbaric acts on such an innocent and young future leader? We have being ordained that a ‘village’ is responsible for nurturing good citizenry but what does such misdemeanour do to the spirit of good neighbourhoodness? Obviously, many families will become estranged and thus fuelling some kind of revenge antics which are unwarranted. Parents must begin to take the centre stage and account on developing good behaviours amongst their children, including monitoring their movements and which ‘friends’ are they keeping. Sending such young people for life sentences is part of the criminal justice outcomes but these acts may be avoided through ‘owning up’ on ‘our’ actions. Young people, even if they are young must be answerable to their actions. Period! By: Mampane Norman National Spokesperson Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Tel: 0112424600/4615 Cell: 0720737959/0722000275 Email: [email protected] www.popcru.org.za 01 Marie Road Auckland Park 2006
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