SOUTH Africa remains a very dangerous place to live with rapes, murders, carjackings, and cash in transit heists on the increase.
In just three months, more than 10 000 rapes and over 5 700 murders were committed in the country.
Releasing crime statistics on Friday for the 1st quarter of this financial year, Police Minister Bheki Cele said the period coincided with level five lockdown that kept almost everyone indoors and most businesses closed.
“In the first quarter, the subcategories of crimes such as contact crimes, sexual offences, aggravated robberies, contact-related and property-related crimes have recorded a never seen before double-digit increases,” said Cele.
“Ordinarily, this would have been catastrophic, but I assure the nation, this is not the case.
“I repeat, we cannot compare the same period of this year and last year, due to the skewed and abnormal crime trends, caused by the different levels of lockdown.”
“While
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