No parole for killers

JUDGMENT has been passed in the murder of Karabo Mokoena, who was savagely and brutally murdered by Sandile Mantsoe.

According to SAPS statistics, in the year 2016/7 women and children made up 13% of all murder victims and, of this number, 3 478 were women, 574 were boys and 265 were girls.

We must punish murderers proportionately to their evil. Killers who murder so viciously, with an attitude so callous, deserve to be incarcerated for life without parole.

They should forfeit their right of appeal to a higher court. Life imprisonment is the surest way to uphold the sanctity of life. To grant parole to anyone convicted of murder is the greatest perversion of justice.

These monsters have committed heinous crimes with full knowledge of the consequences, and they are therefore worthy of stern and swift punishment.

The parole system is a gross violation of our sacred constitution.

An eye for an eye may make the whole world blind, but allowing demonic beings to gouge the eyes of others leaves us with a society in which only the malevolent may see. An innocent life that is lost to a barbaric crime is beyond redemption.

We recently celebrated Freedom Day with pomp and pageantry but, alas, freedom in South Africa is a mirage if we are forced to live in our homes as self-imposed prisoners.

Living under the constant glare of searchlights in heavily gated communities is not the freedom we fought and many of us died for.

We are forced to live under siege, fearing that our names could be added to the 49 people murdered in rainbow South Africa every day.