Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says it should be concerning to anyone who values our democracy that the president can use his position to decide who gets released from prison and when.
News that President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering an application to pardon abaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has correctly caused a stir.
Any serious politician who chooses to ignore this fact and assumes that the urban or social media platforms are all there is, does it to their own detriment. That said, elections come and go. It will be another five years before the sitting head of state again has to kiss babies and wipe strange women’s tears.It should be concerning to anyone who values our democracy that the president can use his position to decide who gets released from prison and when.
It would be a different matter if the president was said to be considering a category of prisoners within which the Thembu royal falls. South Africa has no shortage of prisoners who believe they deserve either pardon or parole and who for various reasons have not received either.
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