Presidency mum on crime e-mails
08/02/2007 10:38  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - The presidency could not say on Thursday whether thousands of e-mails detailing South Africans' experiences of crime had reached President Thabo Mbeki.

"I've not seen any of those letters. I'm not even sure whether they've arrived," said spokesperson for the presidency Mukoni Ratshitanga.

The trade union Solidarity on Tuesday launched a website, www.dearpresident.co.za, via which ordinary South Africans could send Mbeki e-mails about how crime had affected them.

Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said on Thursday morning between 11 000 and 12 000 letters had already been sent. He said Solidarity had received no response from the presidency yet.

"We will go on today (Thursday) by putting pressure on the president to get him to address the matter in his state of the nation address on Friday."

Solidarity launched the site in response to First National Bank having suspended a multimillion-rand anti-crime advertising campaign, reportedly due to pressure from some quarters of government and big-business.

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