Now that it’s the holiday season, criminals think it’s a good time to win because many people have money from stokvels and bonuses. Criminals are out in large numbers trying to rob people of their hard-earned money. Every December, we keep hearing stories about people who were scammed or robbed of their hard-earned money. The police have been warning people that they should always be on the lookout for scammers and robbers, especially at ATMs.
Just after there was a man who got mob justice for scamming people into banking cash, there is another trending story of two ladies who got beaten for pickpocketing. According to the reports, the Port Shepstone community catches picketers. After catching them, they didn’t wait for the police to come and arrest them; they took out a sjambok and gave them a very good whipping.
The video is very sensitive to watch, and it is very heartbreaking to see women being beaten like this, but residents are cleaning the streets of any form of crime. After this was posted on social media, people showed no mercy for these two women; some people in the comments section even said if we continue dealing with criminals, we can put a stop to criminality; some even said this is what must be done to corrupt politicians.
It seems like people have lost trust in their laws; from the past few days, there have been several videos of mob justice. Every time a criminal is caught, they don’t wait for the police to come and arrest them; they deal with them in their own way. Although mob justice is against the law, it seems like it’s the only way crime can be stopped. What is boring about our law is that a person will be arrested today, and tomorrow you will see them roaming the streets. That is why people no longer trust the law.