Over the past fortnight Senzo Mchunu, the new police minister, has undergone a baptism of fire at the hands of crime analysts, the media and his colleagues in parliament. Still, it could have been worse.

A month after he replaced Bheki Cele, Mchunu, formerly a water & sanitation minister, has had the unenviable task of having to release the crime statistics for the first quarter of the current financial year — from April to June...

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