Vonnisse wys goeie begin
Die afgelope weke is vier van die vyf beskuldigdes in ‘n saak van renosterstropery in die Kunene-streek elkeen vonnisse van net meer as elf jaar se tronkstraf opgelê.
Sedert die sluier geruk is van ‘n vlaag van georkestreerde wildstropery wat Namibië die afgelope jare teister, verteenwoordig hierdie strawwe belangrike eerste suksesse in die hof.
Die afhandeling van hierdie saak binne sowat 15 maande word verwelkom as bewys dat owerhede – ondanks struikelblokke wat op ander fronte in speurwerk en regspleging mag geld – erns met doeltreffende en spoedige vervolging het.
Vier Chinese burgers wat reeds aan smokkelary met renosterhorings skuldig bevind is, sal ook eersdaags hul strawwe in die Windhoekse streekhof hoor. Die saak dateer uit Maart 2014.
Om te sê dat Namibiese owerhede reeds ‘n stewige oorhand oor wildstropers – veral van renosters en olifante – gekry het, sal egter ongelukkig die feit miskyk dat nuwe voorvalle steeds te gereeld blootgelê word.
Onlangs is selfs ‘n swartrenoster op die bekende Erindi gestroop. Weer eens, aan die positiewe sy, is verdagtes gou aangekeer.
‘n Uitvoerige netwerk van informante is ‘n belangrike meganisme teen stropery en die individue en sindikate daarby betrokke. Daarom is dit deurslaggewend dat alle inwoners hul oë en ore wyd oophou en onraad dadelik aan hulplyne rapporteer wat deur owerhede, bewaringsvennote en skenkers op die been gebring is.
‘n Leidraad of snuf in die neus wat dalk vir jou onbelangrik lyk, kan die sleutel tot voortgesette en selfs groter suksesse wees.
So sê ander
27 September 2016
An Ugly Campaign, Condensed Into One Debate
“Debate” is an iffy word for an exercise in which candidates are prompted by moderators to dole out their stump speeches bit by bit under hot lights while a clock counts the seconds and every quip and jab and stumble is used to keep score and proclaim a “winner.”
But when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning.
Monday night’s confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a spectacle, for sure: the sheer reality-TV hugeness of it, the Super Bowl audience of tens of millions.
There was a fundamental asymmetry to the exercise, because of the awful truth that one of the participants had nothing truthful to offer. But seeing them on the same stage distilled exactly who they have been through-out this campaign.
It’s absurd that the fate of the race, and the future of the nation, might carom this way or that based on a 90-minute television ritual so tainted by falsehoods.
• THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sedert die sluier geruk is van ‘n vlaag van georkestreerde wildstropery wat Namibië die afgelope jare teister, verteenwoordig hierdie strawwe belangrike eerste suksesse in die hof.
Die afhandeling van hierdie saak binne sowat 15 maande word verwelkom as bewys dat owerhede – ondanks struikelblokke wat op ander fronte in speurwerk en regspleging mag geld – erns met doeltreffende en spoedige vervolging het.
Vier Chinese burgers wat reeds aan smokkelary met renosterhorings skuldig bevind is, sal ook eersdaags hul strawwe in die Windhoekse streekhof hoor. Die saak dateer uit Maart 2014.
Om te sê dat Namibiese owerhede reeds ‘n stewige oorhand oor wildstropers – veral van renosters en olifante – gekry het, sal egter ongelukkig die feit miskyk dat nuwe voorvalle steeds te gereeld blootgelê word.
Onlangs is selfs ‘n swartrenoster op die bekende Erindi gestroop. Weer eens, aan die positiewe sy, is verdagtes gou aangekeer.
‘n Uitvoerige netwerk van informante is ‘n belangrike meganisme teen stropery en die individue en sindikate daarby betrokke. Daarom is dit deurslaggewend dat alle inwoners hul oë en ore wyd oophou en onraad dadelik aan hulplyne rapporteer wat deur owerhede, bewaringsvennote en skenkers op die been gebring is.
‘n Leidraad of snuf in die neus wat dalk vir jou onbelangrik lyk, kan die sleutel tot voortgesette en selfs groter suksesse wees.
So sê ander
27 September 2016
An Ugly Campaign, Condensed Into One Debate
“Debate” is an iffy word for an exercise in which candidates are prompted by moderators to dole out their stump speeches bit by bit under hot lights while a clock counts the seconds and every quip and jab and stumble is used to keep score and proclaim a “winner.”
But when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning.
Monday night’s confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a spectacle, for sure: the sheer reality-TV hugeness of it, the Super Bowl audience of tens of millions.
There was a fundamental asymmetry to the exercise, because of the awful truth that one of the participants had nothing truthful to offer. But seeing them on the same stage distilled exactly who they have been through-out this campaign.
It’s absurd that the fate of the race, and the future of the nation, might carom this way or that based on a 90-minute television ritual so tainted by falsehoods.
• THE NEW YORK TIMES
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