Selebi: Cable Thieves Want To Ruin SA Economy

Farrel — Sun, 13 May 2007 03:27:00 -0500

Here’s an Erwin-level foot-in-mouth quote from Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.

Germiston is a station where a lot of industrial goods pass through, especially cargo going to industrial areas of Gauteng. If you take that cable wire you are in fact stopping the economy from growing, you’re slowing down the economy.

I have reached a conclusion that it is highly organised and is not only organised but also has got certain objectives of arriving at certain goals including economic ones.

It is entirely possible that organised crime is involved in cable theft, but I think the monetary value of the metal in the cable is far higher on the criminal mind than ruining the economy.

This is a hallmark of the paranoia that is rife in the Mbeki administration. The problems at Koeberg, a problem due to negligence, were initially blamed on ‘sabotage’. The TAC have been implied by the government to be working in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies, when in actual fact they have fought just as hard against them as they have against the Minister of Health.

It is much easier to blame some secret conspiracy out to keep you down than it is your own negligence.

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Selebi: Cable Thieves Want To Ruin SA Economy