LETTER: Mr President, look in your own backyard
Many more people die in SA than in Israel
Listening to Radio 702 and Clement Manyathela taking calls from listeners who have fallen victim to violent and abhorrent crime, almost every caller identified as black, and detailing their awful experiences. This after a Zandspruit incident where mobs of vigilantes killed a number of “suspects”. This is nothing new as such incidence of vigilant mobs taking the “law” into their own hands seems as common as crime itself.
Crime in SA accounts for more than 20,000 deaths a year — including women and children, that’s 384 people a week violently killed. A staggering 42,289 rapes were reported to the police in 2020, and estimates are that actual rapes could be more than double this figure. “Reported” cases are more than 15 rapes a day. Other violent crime in SA decimates communities and lives at an unimaginable rate...
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