Hon Ndlovu, we must be told and be given information about members of the SA Police Service or any other law enforcement agencies in the country who will act in the way that you are describing because what that means is that a police officer who is investigating or has been given information about wrongdoing and then goes and divulges that information to the very people they need to investigate is committing an offence. We need to get that information so that we can deal with people of that nature because they are acting in a criminal way and therefore can be legitimately defined as criminals. We want to deal with those people but let us get the information first so that we can deal with them.
In the past there was a law which said that if you where driving a vehicle in which, for instance, the police found any type of contraband material, including drugs, that vehicle would be confiscated by the state and therefore forfeited to the state because it was a vehicle which was used in the commission of a crime. I am under the impression that there is still something like that on our Statute Book. Of course, at the appropriate time the Minister for Justice will respond to this.
It was on that understanding that I argued publicly, for instance, that the house in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, where the police were in a shooting confrontation with criminals, should be forfeited to the state, but I was advised that it was not as straightforward a matter as that. In other words, to my mind it was straight forward, there was criminal activity there and therefore the property should be confiscated. I was advised that it was not as simple as that. Thank you.