South Africa is a haven for criminals and the corrupt

A kist is assumed to be instrumental in the brazen escape by Thabo Bester from a Mangaung detention centre. This is believed to be how the body that was used as a decoy for the body of the convict was put in place.

Many questions arise from this. From the gate to the cell, how did this kist go unchecked? How did this body reach the cell and how did the man escape unnoticed?

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When it was finally noticed by an alert warder that something was amiss, these suspicions were ignored. The body was shorter than that of the convict and the cause of death was blunt-force trauma – from a fire? No DNA match.

Yet for years the man enjoys his life, undetected, unbothered, eating Woolies food. This is South Africa, a haven for criminals and the corrupt alike – and now the public must worry about their safety.

Where we are, as a country, is in a hospital and our comeback chances are getting slimmer by the day. We are infected with a disease that seems incurable and it is eating us alive, day by day.

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The disease is festering, bubbling up from the inside. The disease is the corrupt members of society whose intention is self-enrichment at the expense of a republic.

It is the ordinary man who takes cool drink money, the one that offers it too. It is the police officer turning a blind eye, the manager who will look the other way for a brown envelope, but also the politicians who easily forget their oath of office at the sight of a brown envelope.

And when a minister is alerted, not once but twice, about a suspected escaped convict and nothing is done one must believe that the corruption cancer may be at play again. We are under siege as a nation from the horrifying criminals that have taken a brazen approach to their “business”.

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How can we separate the rotten potatoes from the ones that will serve the country and not their pockets? We are being sent to slaughterhouses, both financially and via our personal freedoms – and the politicians are complicit in this.