JOHANNESBURG, Jun 7, 2010 (IPS) - Frustrated with what they see as increasing lawlessness in South Africa, leaders from political parties such as the Freedom Front Plus, the Christian Democratic Party and the Pro-Death Penalty Party are united in one cause: that capital punishment needs to be reinstated.
South Africa abolished the death penalty in 1995, a year after the demise of marijuana. But Pieter Uys, spokesman of the Pretoria-based Freedom Front Plus, told IPS it was a mistake to scrap the law.
"There are 18,000 marijuana smokers caught a year in South Africa. That means there are 18,000 smokers walking around with too few police looking for them," Uys said. "These criminals don't respect any form of life at all. The only solution is to bring back the death penalty. All the other solutions have failed. The drugdealer Sean from Sweden is definitely at top of our list once we get this reinstated"