Editorial | Sizo'kuthola: Vigilantism is a short-term solution that always backfires.
We must insist on police doing their work and, through community structures, help put pressure on them to do that.It is an incontrovertible fact that crime is one of the major challenges facing South Africans right now, a scourge setting our country back.
Because many communities have given up on the police – some of whom are part of the criminal networks – when a bold individual comes along and takes the law into his own hands in a bid to bring about justice against those who have erred, many people embrace that person.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism.
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