Note to Editors: These remarks were delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the #HandsOffXolani Picket
Dumelang, Molweni, Sanibonani, Goeie More, Good Morning;
South Africans, Xolani Khumalo is being arrested today because he refuses to surrender the country he loves to criminals.
He is paying the price that comes with doing the work SAPS and the judiciary either can’t or won’t do. Instead of keeping criminals off the streets and behind bars, they arrest those who do their work they are too corrupt to do. In South Africa, we’ve come to accept this type of injustice as normal.
We’ve come to accept it as normal that more than 65 people are murdered in cold blood each day. We’ve come to accept it as normal that South Africa is the rape capital of the world. We’ve come to accept the normalcy of drugs flooding our streets and taking the lives and livelihoods of desperate South Africans and their families.
We’ve also come to expect that we can’t rely on SAPS to show up on the scene, or for the courts to keep offenders behind bars.
We don’t only stand in solidarity with Xolani today, but with each person who has been a victim of crime and a victim to our captured justice system. We stand with each South African who has been failed by those meant to protect them.
Xolani Khumalo saw what was happening to his country and said “no” – and now, he is being arrested for it.
Let us look at a few facts of Xolani’s case:
- Xolani raided the residence of a suspected drug dealer with SAPS.
- The police found unlicensed ammunition and arrested the suspect.
- The suspect was never charged and never appeared in court.
- Instead, he was released from custody and his ammunition was returned.
- We now believe the suspect is allegedly involved in a drug dealing racket with SAPS members.
Now that we have the facts, we must ask why SAPS would choose to arrest Xolani whilst the drug dealer walks free?
It is an uncomfortable truth that we’ve all come to accept.
It is an open secret that our police force is soft on criminals because it is filled with criminals itself. We’ve all seen the shocking revelations coming out of the Madlanga Commission, showing that the system is rotting from the inside. But at a community level, across South Africa, communities know where the drug dealers operate and when they report this to the police – they are the ones that get harassed.
Solving the crime problem in South Africa won’t just involve removing every murderer, drug dealer, and trafficker out of our communities. It will also involve sweeping every corrupt official out of office and creating institutions that serve the people and not the people in the institutions.
Here’s another truth – corrupt police members have seen Xolani do the job of restoring law and order, and now, they’re scared of him coming after them. Because they know Xolani will stop at nothing to hold them accountable for failing the South African people.
This is why they will do everything in their power to stop him. Patriots, we cannot let them put an end to Xolani’s work.
There comes a time where we, like Xolani, must say “enough is enough” and finally act. The police and judiciary need to know that the days of conspiring against South Africans and siding with criminals is coming to an end.
Xolani Khumalo should not have to be kicking down doors and zip tying criminals or risking his life to put them behind bars.
Not because he’s unfit for the job, but because government should have been getting on with the job from the start. However, like most things that concern South Africans, the GNU doesn’t appear to care. It has not reformed our justice system, it has not cleaned out SAPS, and it has given a “get out of jail free card” to those who should never have been released.
ActionSA will continue to hold SAPS accountable for this injustice today, and it will monitor the proceedings that follow. But, I have a warning to those corrupt SAPS members behind this arrest of Xolani today: if you thought Xolani Khumalo was a threat before he joined up with ActionSA, just wit and see now that ActionSA is going to put Xolani into political leadership with the support of the residents of this city.
We call on every South African patriot who is gatvol of police corruption, collusion, and inaction to stand in solidarity with Xolani today. He has fought for you to keep drug lords and drug dealers off of the streets, and so we call on South Africans to now fight for him.
Xolani, we as ActionSA and as South Africans who love their country stand in solidarity with you.
Thank you.
#HandsOffXolani: Xolani Khumalo Fought for South Africa, Now We Must Fight for Him
Note to Editors: These remarks were delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the #HandsOffXolani Picket
Dumelang, Molweni, Sanibonani, Goeie More, Good Morning;
South Africans, Xolani Khumalo is being arrested today because he refuses to surrender the country he loves to criminals.
He is paying the price that comes with doing the work SAPS and the judiciary either can’t or won’t do. Instead of keeping criminals off the streets and behind bars, they arrest those who do their work they are too corrupt to do. In South Africa, we’ve come to accept this type of injustice as normal.
We’ve come to accept it as normal that more than 65 people are murdered in cold blood each day. We’ve come to accept it as normal that South Africa is the rape capital of the world. We’ve come to accept the normalcy of drugs flooding our streets and taking the lives and livelihoods of desperate South Africans and their families.
We’ve also come to expect that we can’t rely on SAPS to show up on the scene, or for the courts to keep offenders behind bars.
We don’t only stand in solidarity with Xolani today, but with each person who has been a victim of crime and a victim to our captured justice system. We stand with each South African who has been failed by those meant to protect them.
Xolani Khumalo saw what was happening to his country and said “no” – and now, he is being arrested for it.
Let us look at a few facts of Xolani’s case:
Now that we have the facts, we must ask why SAPS would choose to arrest Xolani whilst the drug dealer walks free?
It is an uncomfortable truth that we’ve all come to accept.
It is an open secret that our police force is soft on criminals because it is filled with criminals itself. We’ve all seen the shocking revelations coming out of the Madlanga Commission, showing that the system is rotting from the inside. But at a community level, across South Africa, communities know where the drug dealers operate and when they report this to the police – they are the ones that get harassed.
Solving the crime problem in South Africa won’t just involve removing every murderer, drug dealer, and trafficker out of our communities. It will also involve sweeping every corrupt official out of office and creating institutions that serve the people and not the people in the institutions.
Here’s another truth – corrupt police members have seen Xolani do the job of restoring law and order, and now, they’re scared of him coming after them. Because they know Xolani will stop at nothing to hold them accountable for failing the South African people.
This is why they will do everything in their power to stop him. Patriots, we cannot let them put an end to Xolani’s work.
There comes a time where we, like Xolani, must say “enough is enough” and finally act. The police and judiciary need to know that the days of conspiring against South Africans and siding with criminals is coming to an end.
Xolani Khumalo should not have to be kicking down doors and zip tying criminals or risking his life to put them behind bars.
Not because he’s unfit for the job, but because government should have been getting on with the job from the start. However, like most things that concern South Africans, the GNU doesn’t appear to care. It has not reformed our justice system, it has not cleaned out SAPS, and it has given a “get out of jail free card” to those who should never have been released.
ActionSA will continue to hold SAPS accountable for this injustice today, and it will monitor the proceedings that follow. But, I have a warning to those corrupt SAPS members behind this arrest of Xolani today: if you thought Xolani Khumalo was a threat before he joined up with ActionSA, just wit and see now that ActionSA is going to put Xolani into political leadership with the support of the residents of this city.
We call on every South African patriot who is gatvol of police corruption, collusion, and inaction to stand in solidarity with Xolani today. He has fought for you to keep drug lords and drug dealers off of the streets, and so we call on South Africans to now fight for him.
Xolani, we as ActionSA and as South Africans who love their country stand in solidarity with you.
Thank you.