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24 May 2012
   
 
 
 
 
 

The sentencing today of the former National Police Commissioner and former President of Interpol, Jackie Selebi, to 15 years imprisonment, marks the end of one of the most controversial trials in South African history. Controversial because of the numerous obstacles placed in the way of due process and the law in trying to bring this criminal to book and controversial because we as a country are almost completely unfamiliar with the idea of a corrupt official, connected to the ANC, actually going to prison. As Mr. Selebi comes to grips with the idea of prison, so too should the government think about the integrity of a police structure that was for years led by an individual who today joins the ranks of the very criminals from which the police are supposed to protect our society. The reason was cadre deployment and cadre deployment alone, and that ANC-driven policy needs to be scrapped.

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