- PREDTORIA -- South Africans
will have to learn how to protect themselves in the unprecedented violent-crime
wave which has hit the country. They should join neighbourhood-watch schemes
and sign up for self-defence programmes, a top security expert has warned.
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- "These criminals come specifically to kill you -
they don't come to get your property. And against such murderous intent,
traditional alarm systems, traditional policing and -security structures
simply won't work, "said the managing director of MindPilot, Dr Bertie
du Plessis, ( email: <mailto:bertie@mindpilot.co.za>bertie@mindpilot.co.za
) at a crime symposium at the Academy for Sciences and Arts in Pretoria
this week. It was sponsored by a top Afrikaans cultural body.
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- See his website: http://www.mindpilot.co.za/why%20us.htm
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- He told Beeld Afrikaans-language newspaper that South
Africa 'has been plunged into a state of low-intensity warfare." He
said this in response to recent warnings being issued over the Jacaranda
radio station in Pretoria by the security company ADT, in which people
are being urged to lock themselves up in their homes each night because
of the unprecedentedly-large number of armed attacks targetting families
in private dwellings in the country which seem to target these unarmed families
for murder rather than just trying to loot them.
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- Link to original story:
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- http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2135135,00.html
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