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Opinion OCTOBER 16, 2013 9 Follow us on Twitter THE MERCURY @TheMercurySA ✗ WEDNESDAY Opinion OCTOBER 16, 2013 9 TELL THE EDITOR These pages are a forum for debate. Send your opinions in the form of letters, faxes, e-mails, SMSes, tweets or Facebook posts. Write to, The Editor, PO Box Spin worn thin A plea Your 47549, Greyville, 4023; fax 031 308 2333, e-mail [email protected]; SMS ‘Merctalk’ and Hlophe your message to 31455 (standard rates apply); tweet @TheMercurySA; or write on our OUTH Africa’s medical pa- them were duly convicted of wall at facebook.com/themercurysa. Please include your name, address and telephone role system has come into very serious offences. In Shaik’s views number. The right to edit submissions, which should be no longer than 200 words, is sharp relief in recent case, he suborned the deputy for the reserved. Pseudonyms will be published only in exceptional circumstances. case weeks, with two of the president of this country and got Smost high-profile beneficiaries him fired in the process. The fact being seen out and about. In dis- that the same person ended up graced former police commis- becoming president, and the victims casts a sioner Jackie Selebi’s case, this NPA opted not to charge him, was going into a local shop on is a subject for another day. an errand, albeit driven there by Selebi gave crime intelligence of Cato dark a driver. reports to his “friend”, a drug In the case of Schabir Shaik, lord. the convicted former financial Selebi and Shaik were sup- adviser of our president, it was posed to spend a major portion Manor shadow slightly more of an active pursuit of their remaining lives behind – allegedly clubbing his caddie bars for these crimes. We cannot with his wedge and stomping on question the advice of medical WE ARE writing to urge politicians him with his golf shoes. experts who testified to these to respond to recent police violence on SA Both Selebi and Shaik were re- men’s terminal illnesses, but, like and contraventions of the courts in leased from prison on medical the rest of South Africa, we can Durban. On September 30, Nqobile parole. Selebi was serving a 15- ponder their apparent miracu- Nzuza, 17, was shot and killed by live THE Constitutional Court has been year jail sentence when he was lous recoveries to non-immi- ammunition, which witnesses say of seminal importance for the im- freed after 229 days because of nently terminal status. was fired by the Cato Manor police. plementation of the democratic dis- kidney failure. Shaik served two And we can wonder, too, just During the months leading up to pensation since 1994 in order to give years and four months of his why – if they are in such appar- Nqobile’s death, her community of credible and cogent effect to the su- 15-year sentence before being ent rude health, particularly in Cato Crest was undergoing forced premacy of the constitution and a released owing to his “uncon- Shaik’s case – their parole has not evictions that, the General Council vibrant human rights culture. trollable” hypertension. been reviewed, if not revoked. of the Bar noted with concern in an It has been manifestly the most Both men were released be- The message, whether Selebi or open letter, the courts had interdict- esteemed court in the land, being cause the Department of Correc- Shaik’s camps like it or not, is ed no less than three times. the ultimate guardian of a progres- tional Services was apparently that freedom for these men Previously, Nkululeko Gwala, sive and universally admired consti- unable to treat their conditions shows that there is one set of who prominently had drawn atten- tution which is the supreme law of in jail hospitals. Nobody in their laws for those who are connect- tion to housing corruption in the South Africa. Its erudite, exemplary right mind would wish either ed, and another for the rest of us. area, was killed after receiving Research Fellow, house Ridgeton, or No 3 Ridge Road, Now follow up with and bold jurisprudence is perused man dead, or harm, for that mat- And no amount of spin will death threats. Several other activists University of KwaZulu-Natal, initially owned by John Ramsay and and studied in ter. The reality is that both of ever change that. have been shot by police. DR GURCHATHEN SANGHERA, later by Edwin Corbishley. action, Mr Phosa other illustrious Activists outside Cato Crest also School of International Relations, The first tollkeeper, appointed in WHETHER it is because Mathews courts, such as have been arbitrarily arrested, in- University of St Andrews, 1866, was Henry Bird. What is cur- Phosa is no longer an ANC national the House of cluding Bandile Mdlalose, who has DR KERRY CHANCE, rently referred to as the Western executive committee member that Lords, the Amer- received national recognition as a Anthropology Department, Freeway, was not always free. he speaks out with such conviction ican Supreme civil society leader for her work with Harvard University, According to the late historian against corruption, or because he is Court, the Indi- Second take Abahlali baseMjondolo. Other lead- DR MICHELLE Killie Campbell, both the tollkeep- trying to instil confidence in a shaky an Supreme ers, such as S’bu Zikode, the found- BURGIS-KASTHALA, er’s house and the gate were re- electorate, he should be commended Court and the From the South China Morning Post ing president of Abahlali, have been Public International Law School of moved at the beginning of the 20th for his strong words (“ANC has German Consti- threatened with death. Law, University of Edinburgh, century and the gate was then rein- failed to deliver” (The Mercury, Oc- tutional Court. It by George The escalation of violence comes DR VALENTINA AZAROV, stalled at a home in Kloof. tober 9). has had eminent Devenish at a time when the Independent Po- Human Rights and International In July 1970, a woman, signing However, he says he remains a jurists of world Robbed far and wide lice Investigative Directorate esti- Law Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds herself only as Mrs M, reported that committed member of the ANC and class who have mates that police assaults have in- University, Abu Dis, Palestine, the “small tollgate” was in her back that “the ANC is an anti-corruption led the court creased by 218 percent. HEIDI MATTHEWS, garden in Kloof. party”. His words become meaning- with distinction, such as Arthur HINA is constantly at the been sued and several more are There have been 4 047 cases of as- S J D candidate, Harvard Law IAN CORBISHLEY less, hypocritical drivel as long as he Chaskalson, Pius Langa and sharp end of Western ac- being pursued, but that has not sault, 275 deaths in custody, 22 rapes School; Fellow, Institute for Global Durban serves a president who has over 100 Sandile Ngcobo. They have left an Ccusations that it is infring- deterred countless other firms in custody, 50 cases of torture, and Law and Policy, Harvard Law charges of corruption against him, invaluable legacy that should not be ing intellectual property rights. there and around the world from 641 complaints of the discharge of School; Good old days when and who has been content to sacri- squandered or tainted. The latest US government vio- illegally profiting. an official firearm. Human rights CLARK BYSE FELLOW, 6d got you through fice the judiciary and our country It is therefore a matter of pro- lations report keeps it on a prio- The e-cigarette market is ex- groups such as Amnesty Interna- Harvard Law School; Fellow, Film trying to keep himself out of jail. found sadness and regret that its rity watch list of 10 nations. ploding, especially in Europe and tional have documented similarly Study Center, Harvard University, VICTORIAN and Edwardian Natal, He talks about trying to save a reputation and esteem are now But theft of patents, designs North America. Tens of millions alarming trends. Adding to the state- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR a coffee-table book by Verbeek, has once great liberation movement that being tarnished by the ongoing saga and copyright is not just a pro- of the world’s 1 billion smokers ments made by lawyers, scholars, re- CYRA AKILA CHOUDHURY, two pictures of the tollgate function- has become rotten. involving the Judge President of the blem in the countries that are have turned to them in the belief ligious leaders, activists and organi- Florida International University, al in the 1870s. The fee was 6d. It is too late, Mr Phosa, the dam- Western Cape, John Hlophe, in the named and shamed. It is an that they are less harmful than sations in South Africa and abroad, College of Law, Miami, JANET LEVY age is done. The only way forward is Special Disciplinary Tribunal, set international phenomenon that traditional tobacco products. we ask that attacks on activists and ZINAIDA MILLER, Westville to impeach the president and try to up by the Judicial Service Commis- has no boundaries. Hon Lik, the Researchers at Wells Fargo & their homes in Cato Manor be Fellow, Institute for Global Law and replace the leadership with honest sion (JSC). This state of affairs has Chinese inventor of the electro- Co predict that global sales will ceased, to fairly investigate the Policy, Harvard Law School PhD Don’t miss concert men and women. How this would be its genesis in the serious allegations nic cigarette, well knows that. He near $2 billion (R20bn) by the killings and other incidents of vio- candidate, The Fletcher School, held for Childline done when the opposite is so deeply that Hlophe had attempted to defeat claims he is being robbed of a end of the year and top $10bn by lence policing, and to move forward Tufts University, Boston, ingrained I cannot imagine.
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