Speaker, the hon Minister just said that he is still investigating, and is going to ask the commission for this and for that. But the fact of the matter is that the first thing a criminal does when he or she is caught, is to call on his or her constitutional rights. In South Africa today, we get more and more situations where victims of criminals are becoming the criminals, and I will give you an example. You are asleep in your house at one o'clock in the morning and criminals come into your house trying to kill you. You close your bedroom door, they start breaking down the door, you shoot with your firearm through the door and you kill one criminal. You are then arrested because you tried to defend yourself! And the example I gave you is a real one.
We do not have the balance between the interests of victims and those of criminals and I want to ask you this: How quickly are you going to speed up the process, because it must also go further in looking into this matter?
Dit is onaanvaarbaar dat 'n slagoffer van misdadigers die misdadiger word omdat hy of sy homself of haarself beskerm het. Dit kan nie so aangaan nie. Dankie. [It is unacceptable that a victim of criminals is regarded as a criminal due to the fact that he or she protected himself or herself. It is an untenable situation. Thank you.]