SOWETAN | Just yesterday, we reported in the newspaper of a bizarre spate of what appears to be arson in which branches of the biggest African independent church on the subcontinent, the ZCC, were set alight.
This country, rightly or otherwise, has often been named as the crime capital of the world. The jury on that, fortunately, will always be out. It is not the type of hat that will sit easily or proudly on any head. It is a dubious honour we as South Africans should strive to shake off, by all legitimate means necessary. But the efforts of those concerned will amount to nought if the will to fight crime at all levels is not demonstrable.
A few weeks earlier, there was a report of a gang that saw fit to attack and rob congregants at a church in Centurion, on the opposite end of the metropole. Now, what sane individual or people would take pleasure in going around torching church structures or robbing the faithful in this age of tolerance? Many would venture that perhaps this tolerance, taken in unhealthy dollops, is the problem.
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