Violent crime soars in South Africa with murders at 20-year high | BBC News

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Violent crime soars in South Africa with murders at 20-year high | BBC News


In South Africa, violent crime is soaring, with the murder rate now at a 20 year-high.

Since 2012, the number of murders has risen by 77%. The latest figures show that more than 27,000 people were killed in the course of a year.

And the number of murders that are solved has fallen to just 12%.

Many of those living in fear work in the…

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  1. The founders of Israel working hard to protect their project on their investment of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Well done lads for protecting your people 🤣🤣🤣. Jews are powerful, we see you 😎

  2. Each house in an average middle class suburb has ten foot high walls surrounding their properties, electrified fencing above, motion detectors inside the home and in the garden, steel burglar bars on the windows, panic buttons, a private security patrol on each street, and a private armed security on call. Should there be a home invasion, no one calls the police.

  3. A fundamental problem is that SA's minister of police has no training as a police officer – not even one day's training – and only has a junior school teaching diploma. Further, the police, prison services and judiciary are notoriously corrupt, with few arrests and convictions for murder.