The NP believes that being tough on crime is the only solution as the country is currently under siege by criminals. The current government and all opposition parties currently taking part in government structures failed ordinary citizens. Most political parties try to silence those exposing the reality in South Africa where 50 people are murdered each and every day. The NP believes that all South Africans should have the right to expose violent crime. By exposure and admittance of the seriousness of this dilemma, we can start to find solutions. The NP is the only political party in South Africa that will reduce violent crime because this party has a zero tolerance on violent crime. Under a NP government, each and every convicted murderer, rapist and drug lord will be executed. The NP will not back down on this policy, as we firmly believe in the permanent removal of murderers, rapists and drug lords. This to the NP is non-negotiable.
The NP is well aware that many South Africans and tourists to our country are exposed to incidents of crime such as carjackings, rape, robbery, house breaking and murder. That is why the NP takes a relentless stance against crime. Very strong action is the only thing that criminals understand. The NP is in favour of the reinstitution of the death penalty for atrocities such as murder, rape and the supplying of drugs. A NP government will punish such criminals severely. The risk of being caught and executed must be drastically increased as significant deterrent for criminals. No mercy for killers, rapists and drug suppliers under NP Government.
Source URL: http://www.nationalparty.co.za/death%20penalty.htm
National Party to bring back realism to South African politics
The National Party has a unique role to play in the New South-Africa as a re-launched political party and growing force in South African politics. At this stage the greatest lack in South African politics is realism. We have a regime that is currently run by ideology not reality. The African National Congress (ANC) has not managed to shake off their old Marxist ideological mindset and they still project onto South Africa a vision of how reality should be during the Cold War. They still divide the country into the old Marxist classes of rich and poor and add to that race politics – blacks are poor and whites are rich. This is a blatant misrepresentation of South Africa, because poverty has grown tremendously amongst whites and affluence amongst blacks. Furthermore, realities in the global economy have changed. We live in the information age and no longer in the industrial age – the rules in the economic and social life of the world have changed drastically since Marx and the Freedom Charter.
The other political parties like the Democratic Alliance (DA) are not faring better with gripping reality. The DA for instance is still locked up tight in the ideology of British liberalism. They impose European Liberal values on a country that is too diverse in talents and challenges to conform to such a simplistic view. We need not more rights and more freedoms necessarily; we need more common sense. For instance, a free market is in essence a virtue as it has been proven to be the better of the two systems after the collapse of Communism, but unfettered capitalism is also an evil. We have a large section of South Africans living in poverty and the system must provide a safety net to secure a basic, descent living standard for all South Africans. In other words the rich can stay rich, but they must contribute to the country that allows the opportunity to be affluent. If the DA has its way we would have a country of tremendous freedom and a free market, but abject poverty and misery. The DA’s refusal to support the re-institution of the death penalty (as it is contrary to their liberal values) is telling of their lack of contact with the desires and needs of people on grassroots level. We need a pragmatic answer to the problems we face with crime and not more ideological drivel.
The National Party in its name suggests the approach – namely National. We need a party that would place our country first and serve the interests of the South African public at large, not the selfish desires of a rich few or the aspirations of a president who wishes to be an international figure. The National Party would be neither Pro-West nor Pro-East, Pro-G8 nor Pro-Non-Alignment, but Pro-South Africa. The leadership of the National Party’s greatest consideration would be what is best for the well-being and growth of South African nation. The National Party will build a new nationalism amongst South Africans that is based on loyalty to this country and not like the ANC policy built upon race. The ANC has managed to drive a wedge between the different race groups in South Africa through their mismanagement of our national interest and through treading on the toes of well-meaning groups in our country, like the Afrikaners.
The starting point of the National Party would be South African realities and the cure for our ills would be along pragmatic lines – strategies that have a proven track record of being effective – and not along ideological wishful thinking. We will take what was best from the past and best of the present to build what is best for the future. The ANC is still locked in the past and is not sufficiently future orientated or realistic enough to take our country into the 21st century with all the global challenges facing us.
Source URL: http://www.nationalparty.co.za/newsletter.htm
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