Justice must be applied equally

WE MUST ask ourselves: Is justice in this country equal? In some cases, the law is being applied very quickly, like in the case of students battling for free quality education at universities.

Students are arrested, charged and brought before the courts of law.

In the case of the #FeesMustFall leader Mcebo Dlamini, the criminal justice system has acted very fast to lock up the students’ leader. He is now behind bars.

Dlamini was arrested for an alleged crime he committed a week ago. He was arrested on Sunday evening and had already appeared in court and the police opposed his bail application.

Cope laid a charge of incitement to violence on February 10 against the ANC Youth League president, Collen Maine. Sad to say that the police have done absolutely nothing to bring this instigator to book. We laid a second charge against Maine on Sunday, at the Garsfontein police station, for incitement to violence.

Cope wants to say to the minister of police that Maine belongs in jail.

We are saying, apply the law equally, just as happened to Dlamini and all the arrested students. It’s very clear that the police are in cahoots with Maine, that’s why no action has been taken against him after 10 months.

When magistrate Albertus Roux denied Dlamini bail, he said it would not be in the best interests of justice to grant him bail. What would be in the best interests of this country, if we may ask?

Cope will forever insist that all of us must be treated equally by the justice system of this country.

Dlamini allegedly committed crimes, so as Maine, he must be arrested.

DENNIS BLOEM Cope spokesman Johannesburg