Post by cjm on Oct 22, 2016 7:56:12 GMT
Herbst: Max Price’s capitulation to criminality. Should Chumani Maxwele stand trial?
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I know, and Dr Max Price knows, that Chumani Maxwele and his RMF/FMF cabal had every hope and every intention of burning the University of Cape Town to the ground on 15 February this year because a Cape High Court judge, Rosheni Allie, has made that a matter of judicial record.
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The Criminal Matters Amendment Act makes provision for harsher sentences for those vandalising state property – a minimum sentence of three years for first offenders, five years for second offenders and seven years for third-time offenders.
But what of those who, with specific reference to its arsonist leader, perennial student, Chumani Maxwele and the Rhodes Must Fall movement members, vandalised the private property of UCT, from buildings to statues, paintings and vehicles? Nothing was sacrosanct in that vandalism – not even the memories of those who died in battle. “Students looked on as workers removed graffiti on a war memorial that read “f**k black exclusion” and “f**k white people”. This desecration was the work of Masixole Mlandu, one of five RMF activists prohibited by Judge Rosheni Allie from entering the UCT campus, a prohibition which they have subsequently repeatedly and with contempt, ignored.
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Since then, of course, the RMF/FMF movement, constantly lauded by the Cape Times, has gone on to bigger and better things – looting, flooding computer laboratories, setting libraries alight, setting another bus alight as an encore to the torching of the Jammie Shuttle on 15 February, attacking reporters and news photographers and stealing from them, causing property destruction estimated to cost the country more than a billion rand in reconstruction costs, vicious assault which saw security guards critically injured in at UKZN and UCT and attempted murder.
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I know, and Dr Max Price knows, that Chumani Maxwele and his RMF/FMF cabal had every hope and every intention of burning the University of Cape Town to the ground on 15 February this year because a Cape High Court judge, Rosheni Allie, has made that a matter of judicial record.
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The Criminal Matters Amendment Act makes provision for harsher sentences for those vandalising state property – a minimum sentence of three years for first offenders, five years for second offenders and seven years for third-time offenders.
But what of those who, with specific reference to its arsonist leader, perennial student, Chumani Maxwele and the Rhodes Must Fall movement members, vandalised the private property of UCT, from buildings to statues, paintings and vehicles? Nothing was sacrosanct in that vandalism – not even the memories of those who died in battle. “Students looked on as workers removed graffiti on a war memorial that read “f**k black exclusion” and “f**k white people”. This desecration was the work of Masixole Mlandu, one of five RMF activists prohibited by Judge Rosheni Allie from entering the UCT campus, a prohibition which they have subsequently repeatedly and with contempt, ignored.
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Since then, of course, the RMF/FMF movement, constantly lauded by the Cape Times, has gone on to bigger and better things – looting, flooding computer laboratories, setting libraries alight, setting another bus alight as an encore to the torching of the Jammie Shuttle on 15 February, attacking reporters and news photographers and stealing from them, causing property destruction estimated to cost the country more than a billion rand in reconstruction costs, vicious assault which saw security guards critically injured in at UKZN and UCT and attempted murder.
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