‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” This saying, attributed to Gandhi, best describes South Africa’s departure from capital punishment in the seminal Constitutional Court case State v Makwanyane and Another, which was decided on June 6 1995 and which re-affirmed the fundamental right to life and human dignity, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
Sexual violence is of particular concern. A total of 52 420 sexual offences having been reported in the 2018-2019 financial year, according to statistics from the South African Police Service. Of these reported sexual offences, 79% were categorised as rape, which translates to 114 reported rapes a day. It is irrefutable that South Africa has a pathological problem with sexual violence.
Apart from the accompanying international and localised constitutional jurisprudence on the right to life and dignity as well as the human rights of accused and convicted persons in general, the trajectory of the South African constitutional democracy cannot and does not endorse sanctioned murder by the state.
For the department to achieve its mission of punishing, removing and rehabilitating offenders, those who commit sexual offences need to be convicted and brought to justice. This mission is unobtainable in the current, realistic context.
With rape & murder cases BringBackTheDeathPenalty WILL work
Why knock it before you tried it... ? Says who it won't work? ... it's not tried yet....We will to deal/spend less with/on repeat offenders and castrate the new ones... 🤷🏽♀️
So fewer rapists and murderers won’t stop us being raped and killed?
Yes it will!!
It will mean our taxes won't feed house clothe and protect monsters
But will reduce it
SA is full of excuses, why are we justifying crime by saying ppl have deeper issues or mental illness. How did you reach this conclusion ?
It will definitely decrease the number of offenses perpetrated by those out on bail or “rehabilitated”
It probably won’t but, justice will still be served!
Let’s try it first and see.
It would curb it in the very least and give the broken system a chance to identify and deal with the mental illness in those who inflict this and any kind of violence. Immediate punishment once proven guilty would be best.
And neither will banning Alcohol at Stellenbosch Campus. Its more complicated
But it will stop offenders from being a burden on the taxpayers.
True but it is a fair punishment to the monsters. We no longer want death penalty because it will reduce crime but because it will bring closure to the victims.
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