Last week’s incident of company bakkie drivers transporting workers to work being intimidated by members of a local taxi association, holds ominous undertones.
According to reports, some drivers were confronted at gunpoint and workers ordered off from the vehicles.
Did this open display of aggression in the public space prompt immediate response from law enforcement sector?
Nope. No one was arrested and nobody will appear in court to answer for their threatening actions.
Would that have been the case if I as an individual walked around a shopping mall openly brandishing a handgun.
I would have been gang-tackled, hauled off to the slammer and facing the wrath of a magistrate in double quick time.
So, what exactly is happening here? Obviously a slow poison capitulation of law and order – an acceptance that gangster-type intimidation holds sway and not much will be done to prevent society from sinking deeper in the morass of eventual anarchy.
You may recall similar taxi intimidation tactics last year. There were no consequences for anyone either, just a limp-wristed response of calling together a “committee to address the issue”.
Never heard of it again, and don’t hold your breath this time round either.
https://www.citizen.co.za/north-coast-courier/208475/taxi-intimidation-infuriates-north-coast-business-owners/
Another good example of where we are heading are the actions if the co-called “Construction Mafia” most readers will be familiar with – the crime cartels using violent tactics to force their way into multi-million rand construction projects.
I can’t recall arrests or court cases related to these incidents either.
Hopefully I’m wrong, but it appears as if there is no effective infiltration and intelligence gathering by our security clusters to identify the architects of crime and corruption.
This lies at the core of any successful strategy to combat disorder.
One assumes our government is totally committed to their public relations speak of restoring order in our embattled societies.
We are at a crossroads (actually, have been there for some time) – restore free market principles and finally, forcefully crush corruption, or continue on the road of allowing the slow poison to eat away at stability.
Given the track record of our leaders’ ability for decisive action, there is, unfortunately, little hope of them growing back their cahunas to do what is right.
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