Crime fight can't wait for government - Zille

South Africans cannot wait for government to rescue them from crime, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.

"It is up to us to take our communities back. This is going to take the commitment and drive of every person... who values the ideal of a crime-free South Africa," she said.

Speaking at an anti-crime march in Port Elizabeth she said a new spirit of community was needed to fight crime in South Africa.

"Even with the best police officers, the war against crime will not be won without the support of the broader community," she said.

"This means moving away from a victim mentality that stops us from taking control of our lives."



Each member should take responsibility for the community in which they lived and should encourage others to do the same.

"If every law-abiding resident in the northern areas became the eyes and ears of the police, crime rates would drop," Zille said.

"In short, we cannot wait for the government to rescue us from crime."

Community members must be positive role models for their children and every child in the community, she said.

Those who chose the life of a gangster often did so because they never learned strong moral values from somebody they admired, Zille said.

"Their role models are the flashy gangsters and the drug dealers."

"Our job is to show them what can be achieved through a life grounded in family values and respect." - Sapa

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Posted By: Jan
AfricanCrisis Webmaster
Author of: Government by Deception

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
(George Orwell)

My all time favourite movie quote is from the Dwarf in Lord of the Rings: "Certainty of death, small chance of success... what are we waiting for?"

Date Posted: Sunday 04-May-2008
Helen Zille was Black Sash and anti-Apartheid activist. Her identity is Jewish, she gives a fuck for the Afrikaner and has made this publicly known.

By helping to end Apartheid she ushered in the crime wave. Any moron not having his head in the toilet knew that once the SAP, SADF and the old criminal justice system were gone crime would explode. Now she is bitching. That's logic for you, but I assume that she is an intelligent women, so this talk is about something else, and she is only using the crime issue to get into power.

disgusted

Date Posted: Sunday 04-May-2008
The ANC Loves crime.
The ANC wants crime.
The ANC will make crime worse.

Crime will only end when the ANC is gone.

Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa

Date Posted: Sunday 04-May-2008
Helen Zille for President, yes? Along with the DA?

Brian & Beverlee Deller
Marbella
Spain