South Africa: Minister Joemat-Pettersson Overstepping Her Mandate

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Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson seems to spend her life removing one foot from her mouth and replacing it with the other.

In a reply received yesterday to my parliamentary question as to the grounds on which she determined that those involved in unlawful activities during the violent farm strikes in the Western Cape should not be liable to arrest and prosecution, she gave the most bizarre response.

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