A father’s frustration with the slow turning of SA’s wheels of justice
I HEREBY, as a law-abiding citizen, wish to display my deepest frustration and utter disgust re the announcement by the Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, that justice in murder cases is to grind to a halt (April 2) until after lockdown.
I further want to sympathise and empathise with an affected family, whose case in this instance has been running for five long years.
To quote this family; “All we want is closure and for the case to be finalised, now we have to wait even longer.”
From a pessimistic view, what if the lockdown is going to be extended by a longer period?
Heaven forbid!
I have been experiencing heartbreak for about two years now with the case of my slain son (Case 626/08/2018).
I wrote countless emails, local, provincial and national.
Twice I was excited, first when his case was handed over to the AntiGang Unit and when we had to do a petition in front of the standing committee of police in Parliament. This was after approaching the
Speaker’s office.
Now that Parliament is closed, it seems that all these parliamentarians are just happy with this “extended holiday”.
Promises made by the standing committee and by the National Police Minister were all just empty words.
No communication, zilch, nothing, nada!
I am hesitant to ask them to imagine if it was their son … believe me the whole police and army would have been deployed.
I want to suggest if that’s the case, that Parliament remains closed forever, as it seems they have all abdicated their responsibility to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It seems that criminals have more rights and now with Minister Lamola’s announcement, it seems that these scum (criminals) will have an extended break.
My beloved son didn’t have the right to life.
I am quite sure new Western Cape Police Commissioner (Yolisa) Matakata, will be like Pontius Pilate and say it’s at National.
National will say this takes time and so the merry-go-round goes on, with no communication, no responsibilities.
Mr Lamola, are the detectives also on lockdown? Why could court cases not continue with stringent control measures?
I am quite sure that after this, I would not be endearing to them and my son’s case will even be more neglected.
Believe me, I am not just speaking only on my son’s behalf, but others who are also disadvantaged like this.
I am a chronic hypertension patient and it seems the wheels of justice are waiting on people like us to have our last breath.