DEPUTY Police Minister Maggie Sotyu says South Africa's courts are racist because black criminals receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts, Beeld newspaper reported today (November 10).
Sotyu said a white farmer who dragged a black farmworker behind his bakkie got off with a fine of R10000.
In contrast, when a black worker killed a white farmer he was jailed for life. "So we are saying those are politics of racism because our courts need to be empowered, they need to be aware that we are now in (the) new South Africa," she added.
Sotyu, a former chairman of Parliament's portfolio committee on police, was appointed deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma's major Cabinet reshuffle 10 days ago.
She reportedly made the remarks after a briefing to MPs yesterday on the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's report on violent crime in South Africa. – Sapa
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