Our member of parliament, Mduduzi Manana is the worst of them all because he thinks his R100 000 offerings can cleanse him of his dastardly inhumane acts against women.
Clearly in the latest saga of assaulting his domestic worker and then urging her to drop her assault case against him in exchange for R100 000, disqualifies him from being a public representative – worse still in the national assembly.
I fully support ANC structures that have called for his recall. He does not deserve to be there if he undermines the very people he represents. He also has the nerve to try to silence the victim with money accrued from taxpayers. I also blame the ANC members who re-elected him into the National Executive Committee during their national conference in December and subsequently was retained in parliament as an ordinary member after he fell from grace as deputy minister of higher education.
In this instance, police also need to be taken to task for negligence of their duties in cases of abuse. If for whatever reasons a victim opens a case of abuse and makes a turn, drops the case, they should proceed with it. If they conform to such, then we will never conquer abuse in society.
Even the tendency of them asserting that if you report a case of a missing person, urging you to wait 24 hours, should be immediately scrapped. During that period a life could be saved. They should immediately act on the case. Such an act resonates from shear laziness and lack of assertiveness on their side.
I wonder if police officers ever watch Crime and Investigation so that they can emulate their counterparts abroad. This leads one to urge Pienaar police to thoroughly investigate the recent murder case of Nonhlanhla Mthethwa. The family and community have forwarded leads to arrest the suspect, but police are failing to act on it. Officers who are not committed to their jobs should be flushed out of the force because they are denting the noble policing career.
On a sad note, we pay special tribute to internationally renowned photographer, Sam Nzima who passed away on Saturday night. He has been one of us and has made us very proud as Mpumalanga to have produced a person of calibre.
His life needs to be celebrated by all and sundry, especially youngsters in the field and needs to be followed.
You will notice that we have featured in this edition, a special tribute to Nzima, not as a one-time praise, but our holding company, Caxton, has played a meaningful role in his life and career, especially for claiming the rights for his award-winning photograph.
Rest in peace!
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