non-functional justice
ESKOM gets the headlines, but it’s a sideshow to the main event.
A far greater threat than the disintegration of the national grid is the crippled criminal justice system. The SA Police Service (SAPS) is, in large measure, non-functional. The National Prosecuting Authority is, in critical aspects, dysfunctional.
As a consequence, while the rates of the various categories of crime fluctuate, the trend over the past decade is upwards.
South Africa is, in the title of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak novel,
