LETTER: Lindiwe Sisulu has reservations about the rights of Africans
Amend the constitution to help criminals not to avoid the law
17 January 2022 - 17:35
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Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu. File picture: TREVOR SAMSON
I don’t have legal training, but I am nevertheless stunned by the content of the recent articles written by (or for) a senior minister and governing party member regarding the constitution and legal system of the republic.
Lindiwe Sisulu appears to have grave reservations over the rights of citizens, particularly the rights of people in Africa and more especially the rights of Africans.
What I don’t get is that it is those same laws and rights that have enabled a former president of the ANC as well as of the republic to avoid being brought before the courts to be tried on many counts of corruption for almost two decades.
Perhaps the constitution should be amended so that transgressors are not able to escape being held accountable by abusing the law.
John Johnston Gordons Bay
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LETTER: Lindiwe Sisulu has reservations about the rights of Africans
Amend the constitution to help criminals not to avoid the law
I don’t have legal training, but I am nevertheless stunned by the content of the recent articles written by (or for) a senior minister and governing party member regarding the constitution and legal system of the republic.
Lindiwe Sisulu appears to have grave reservations over the rights of citizens, particularly the rights of people in Africa and more especially the rights of Africans.
What I don’t get is that it is those same laws and rights that have enabled a former president of the ANC as well as of the republic to avoid being brought before the courts to be tried on many counts of corruption for almost two decades.
Perhaps the constitution should be amended so that transgressors are not able to escape being held accountable by abusing the law.
John Johnston
Gordons Bay
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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