BN@10: Ian Cameron - Crime’s taproot: SAPS tops jobs are now ANC cadre retirement gigs

During the interview session of his keynote, crime activist Ian Cameron ripped away the plaster concealing the root of SA’s law and order problem - leadership of the SA Police Services has been stuffed with untrained and ANC party loyalists with often very dodgy ethics. The unintended consequences of this odious form of cadre deployment has been to shield Big Crime via payola-driven interventions from politically-appointed Generals, or simply rank incompetence. Even in Hermanus, where the day before the conference Cameron witnessed 20 abalone smugglers operating untroubled and in broad daylight. - Alec Hogg