Point taken.
The problem we have at the moment is that the SAPS is broken. Mob justice is almost an expectation under our current circumstances, but I would far rather have a functional SAPS. Mob justice places even more pressure on a already dysfunctional service.
We are faced with a whole lot of problems though - ones which go back at least 50 years (read Cry the Beloved Country), as well as new ones being propagated via well-intentioned, but misdirected government programmes.
In a lot of ways we need to fix the fabric of our society, and maybe we are relying on the wrong institutions to do that. A lot of the problems probably can't be fixed by institutions, but only by people, only by relations.
The thing that I am worried about is that changing our current paradigm is going to require the death of a whole generation, and what will we have bred in the meantime?
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