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It is disingenuous and pure political point-scoring for the Democratic Alliance to jump on the crime-warden bandwagon in Gauteng. The DA’s own Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) in the Western Cape has cost taxpayers more than R4 billion and failed to show tangible results in reducing crime. Yet, the DA now seeks to claim the moral high ground in Gauteng while ignoring the failure of its own policing vanity project. Both Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens (CPW/Amapanyaza) and the Western Cape’s LEAP officers exist in the same legal grey zone. Neither province has the authority to establish parallel policing structures. GOOD has been consistent that these unregulated, politically driven initiatives are illegal, ineffective, and unsustainable.

The fact that the ANC has grossly manipulated Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policies to favour a small circle of its friends is disgraceful and wasteful, but that does not mean the national imperative to transform ownership of the economy should be abandoned. There have been some positive BBBEE initiatives, such as the transfer of company shares to employees, but these successes have been overwhelmed by a tide of state ineptitude and corruption.