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The ANC launched its manifesto in Durban at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday with the ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa promising to keep South Africans safe from crime in the next five years.
Some of the key priorities announced by Ramaphosa are to reduce crime, corruption, and bring services in the country.
Ramaphosa said that in the next five years, the ANC will take a comprehensive approach to fighting crime through the Integrated Violence and Crime Prevention Strategy.
He added that this will be done through modernising policing with more frontline police officers.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said, during the release of the third quarter crime statistics that between October and December last year, 7 710 people were murdered, an increase of 155 from the same period in the previous year.
The majority of the top 30 stations where murder was most reported were in the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng,
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