Hold ANC to account

So the government says it is going to ensure there are more rape kits at police stations?

This is only one link in a long broken chain.

Ironically, statistics show the majority of ANC voters are women, yet the women bear the brunt of crime.

Cognitive dissonance of the highest order.

Why are the opposition parties not attracting the female vote?

And what about demeriting all those policemen who have not ensured that each police station has rape kits?

The country is collapsing because every civil servant operates with impunity.

We should reward success, not failure. Yet, what does the government do?

It begs civil servants, rioters, men, truck burners and gangsters to mend their ways.

People will not mend their ways unless there are consequences.

In all normal societies, governments lock up criminals – for many years, not just one or two years.

The underlying problem behind the lawlessness in the country is ideology and culture – it is how we do things.

The looters at the top are still walking around and none have been arrested except some whistleblowers.

And the Zondo commission is only investigating the tip of the iceberg.

What about investigating the municipalities, SOEs and government departments?

Democracy only works if one holds the ruling party to account by voting them out of power – not marching, protesting and merely spouting pious platitudes.

The ANC will first have to mend its ways before our rapists and murderers will.

Naushad Omar, Cape Town