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Opposition parties call for police system overhaul after crime stats show hike in murders

JOHANNESBURG - Opposition parties called for an overhaul of the country’s police system following an increase in the number of people being killed. On Friday, police released the third quarterly crime statistics covering the period from 1 October to 31 December 2023. During those three months, police recorded 7,710 murders, working out to about 83 murders a day. The third quarterly crime statistics cover a large part of the festive […]

today18 February 2024

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‘We’re making headway: 202 suspects arrested since CIT task team formed’, says top cop

Violent criminals and illegal firearms are being taken off the streets by a dedicated team working to combat cash-in-transit (CIT) heists, says police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole. The recently established national CIT task team is countering aggravated robberies in five provinces. The latest breakthrough was the arrest of 10 suspects in Rosettenville this week after at least 25 suspects who were allegedly on their way to commit a CIT robbery […]

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’13 per cent more likely to be killed than five years ago: analyst

In the wake of increased concerns about the level of violent crimes witnessed within the Cape Flats, Minister Fikile Mbalula on Tuesday released the latest crime statistics, the first since he was appointed in the March cabinet reshuffle. Speaking to VOC, crime expert for the Institute of Security Studies, Graham Newham explains that while the stats are reflective of historical data, being some seven months old, the numbers are important […]

today25 October 2017

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Crime Stats: Western Cape is the murder centre of South Africa

The Western Cape is home to a third of the country’s police stations where the most killings have been recorded and it's also home to South Africa’s longstanding murder capital - Nyanga. Seven out of the top 10 police stations where the highest numbers of murders have been recorded are also in the Western Cape. But the Roodepoort police station in Gauteng has experienced the sharpest percentage increase in murders, […]

today24 October 2017

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