Saturday, September 20, 2014

DA: Crime stats show that South Africa isn’t safe

Oscar Thomas
20 September 2014

The DA is deeply concerned for all South Africans who today face massively increased levels of crime. This comes after the 2013/2014 crime stats released yesterday that violent crimes are on the increase.

It has been revealed yesterday that the murder rate has gone up for the second consecutive year. There were 17 068 murders in 2013/14.  

DA Media Officer Samkelo Mgobozi said this works out to 47 murders a day. This number of deaths is what one would expect to be reported from a country at war.

Mgobozi said with the requisite time, effort, resources, and support from the public, the SAPS can begin to make inroads into stemming the tidal wave of crime in this country.

“But this can only begin once we face up to the reality of the challenges that we face Mgobozi added.

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