OPINION | Unless the state reasserts its primary task to provide national security while simultaneously creating a culture of respect for the rule of law, the law of the jungle will become the norm, writes MMkhabel.
Thabo Bester's escape highlights a declining capacity of the state to perform its primary security function, argues the author.
Unless the state reasserts its primary task to provide national security while simultaneously creating a culture of respect for the rule of law, the law of the jungle will become the norm, writesNasty, brutish, and short – that's how the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described life in 17th-century primitive Europe. , a book he wrote while fleeing Britain for what he thought was a lesser brutish France, that life in the state of nature was unbearable because everyone was at war with everyone.
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