How much longer can the law stand to be perverted?

Yet again The Herald documents the perilous state of justice. Headlines on Thursday concern the arrest of the whistleblowers in the Bosasa case, who appear to have been arrested on the strength of evidence at the Zondo inquiry.

Such testimony was untested by cross-examination. If those involved now claim it was lies, they will merely face perjury charges. That would seriously damage the inquiry and the entire NPA case.

Is that the purpose of the arrest? Will the main perpetrators ever be arrested?

Another instance is “NPA ‘cannot deny’ political interference”. With the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the people’s rage is directed at the fact that some NP government agents might not have been prosecuted.

Media reports at the time gave the number of people murdered by the ANC as 15,000 before they were unbanned, and 15,000 after they were unbanned and returned to wage war on the country.

Not one member of the ANC has ever been brought to book. They accepted collective responsibility for crimes, but refused to specify which crimes and thus were denied amnesty by the TRC.

In fact, the entire TRC was a farce – one-sided and stagemanaged. No attempt has ever been made to bring any one of the ANC perpetrators to court.

Fourteen Zulu children were machine-gunned on the way to junior school. Grenades were thrown into Machardo’s Tavern where scholars were celebrating New Year, followed by AK47 fire. St James Church?

And the TRC ex-officials are concerned only about “apartheid” agents.

How much longer can law stand to be perverted before failing altogether?

Ivan Smith, Eikendal, Joubertina