LETTER: Skilled law-making is surest way to stop weakness in criminal justice administration
There is no prospect of either the NPA or the Hawks being able to attract the right personnel in time to save SA from failure as a state
During his televised marathon session with media notables on September 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa emphatically insisted that he is determined to deal with corruption. This most welcome mindset is essential to generating the political will that has long been the missing ingredient in the national longing to end grand corruption with impunity.
There is, however, another element that is required to actualise the ANC national executive committee resolution that requires the cabinet to urgently establish a permanent, independent entity to see off the corrupt: skill in the revision of the legal framework for countering the corrupt needs to be brought to bear to make that resolution the lived reality in the criminal justice administration...
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