By REGINALD KANYANE
7 April 2025- The Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM) in the North West on Monday, condemned looting of bags of maize meal from an overturned truck in Dinokana village, outside Zeerust over the weekend. This follows a video that has gone viral on social media showing scores of villagers pillaging from an accident scene.
The Convenor of the MRM Provincial Interim Committee, Pastor Lesiba Kgwele said the despicable act that happened while the driver of the overturned truck was still trapped in the vehicle with only two to three rescuers struggling to pull him from the wreckage, depicts moral decay. Kgwele further said they are concerned that the involvement of children in the looting of goods from an accident scene is inadvertently teaching them to embrace community values that undermine compassion and ubuntu.
“Accident scenes must be respected and not tempered with in order not to jeopardize investigations. If you are not part of the rescue effort, you should not be near a scene of accident as this hampers progress.
“Shooting videos for social media content is not only insensitive, but also undermines the moral and ethical society that we seek to create,” he cautioned.
Kgwele added that, such conduct if not confronted, has the potential to promote escalation of crime along the N4 RSA-Botswana route. He said they urge the SAPS, Border Management Authority and Road Traffic Management to intensify visibility and crime prevention operations along the route to ensure safe travel of motorists and transportation of goods to and from neighbouring countries.
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