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    <title>Politics.za: Do The Public Trust The Scorpions Less</title>
    <link>http://politics.za.net/articles/2007/09/25/do-the-public-trust-the-scorpions-less</link>
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      <title>Do The Public Trust The Scorpions Less</title>
      <description>While reading &lt;a href="http://mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=320129&amp;#38;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on the suspension of &lt;acronym title="National Prosecuting Authority"&gt;NPA&lt;/acronym&gt; chief Vusi Pikoli I came across this quote for &lt;acronym title="South African Communist Party"&gt;SACP&lt;/acronym&gt; spokesperson Malesela Maleka:
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&amp;#8220;The way the Scorpions [and the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NPA&lt;/span&gt;] have continued to conduct themselves has raised a lot of eyebrows and the people have lost faith in the institutions,&amp;#8221; said Maleka.
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He said an overhaul of the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NPA&lt;/span&gt; and the Scorpions is needed in order to improve the public&amp;#8217;s trust in them. &amp;#8220;More than perhaps the suspension, we need a serious overhaul which must be informed by the resolutions of the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ANC&lt;/span&gt; national general council in 2005 and the policy conference that took place this year.&amp;#8221; 
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I have a feeling that if Maleka took a poll he&amp;#8217;d find support for the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NPA&lt;/span&gt; and Scorpions to be a bit higher than expected. Perhaps what he meant to say is &amp;#8220;Why do the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NPA&lt;/span&gt; investigate prominent polititicians? Don&amp;#8217;t they know we&amp;#8217;re above the law?&amp;#8221;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>Farrel</author>
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