Deputy Chairperson, the leadership of the EFF and the entire ground forces, this country is one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
Setswana:
Aforikaborwa ke e nngwe ya mafatshe a itsegeng ka dipetelelo, dipolaano le botlhokatsebe bo bo kwa godimo. Seno ke bothata jo mo diporofenseng tsotlhe. Tona ya Lefapha la Sepodisi, Ntate Bheki Cele, o samagane le go fedisa bothata jono, ke sone se a tswang go tsaya masole go tla go thusana le basepodisi. Batho ba rona ba latlhegelwa ke matshelo a bona ka ntlha ya botlhokatsebe.
English:
In Cape Town, we have seen an average of 30 people killed in gang violence. But gangsterism is not just limited to Cape Town.
Setswana:
Digongwana tsa bosenyi di iphile matla mo nageng ka bophara: Kwa magaeng, dikolong le dikgolegelong. Batho ba rona ba a bolawa. Puso ya rona e leka maano a le mantsi go fedisa botlhokotsebe ka digongwana tsa bosenyi; le dipolaano tse di setlhogo mo nageng ya rona. Go na le melao le mananeo ao puso e ka a dirisang go fedisa ...
English:
... violent crimes in this country. The starting point is for the Minister to increase the police officers. The police officers must
be better trained and provide them with better resources and equipment. Currently, you have an unequal distribution of police resources which is a reflection of how police resources were distributed during apartheid.
Setswana:
Mo mafelong a mangwe batho ba le 40 ba bolawa ka ngwaga, fa kwa mafelong a go tshwana le Phillipi go bolawa batho ba ka nna 40 ka beke, ke ka goo mapodisi a lefelo leo a tshwanetseng go nna gona ka dinako tsotlhe.
English:
Due to having a high number of murders per year, we cannot continue to allocate resources based on apartheid spatial planning. In order to address the maladministration of the police capability and resources, the EFF has a number of solutions: Firstly, police resources must be allocated according to the number of police in catchment areas and the level of the crime in that area.
Secondly, satellite police stations must be established in every ward that currently does not have police stations. Thirdly, police vehicles must be repaired and additional 700 000 preachers by the end of 2022 must be established. All police reservists and security
guards must be absorbed in a chief unit of the SA Police Service, SAPS, and women capacity must be increased.
Community Police Forum must be reactivated and they must be properly compensated. We also need to be questioning where the guns that are used to kill our people are coming from.
Setswana:
Re bona ka fa batho ba rona ba bolawang ka gona letsatsi le letsatsi mme ga go sepe seo se ka dirwang go fedisa seno.
English:
I just want to come to the Minister of Justice. During the apartheid era, our people were arrested and sentenced by the apartheid government. I am one of those people. The prisons were overcrowded, which is the violation of human rights.
Setswana:
Tona ya Bosiamisi le Tirelo ya Dikgopololo, o ikutlwa jang fa dikgolegego di tletse ka mokgwa o di tletseng ka ona?
English:
Don't you think that the political prisoners should be give an amnesty so that they can be released because they are still languishing within the prison premises? Minister Bheki Cele, you also talk about the corrupt police officers. Pay the police officers and the members working for correctional services so that they cannot be bribed. Most of the police officers are involved in corruption, rape and murder cases and none of them are being prosecuted for those cases.
Setswana:
Botlhokotsebe jono bo diragala mo mafelong a a tshwanang le Katlehong.
English:
They are involved even in robberies, and they are your members. Can't you get the right people to investigate those cases? The other example is Kanya, a student who was arrested for fighting for free education and yet I heard you saying that there is free education taking place at this moment. Can't you release the comrades who have been arrested and sentenced from the Department of Justice and Correctional Services? My question is: If you say there is free education, why are they still behind bars? Can't you release them? I thank you.