11 people murdered daily and 290,000 active criminal cases in one South African province
On average,11 people are murdered every day in the Western Cape, while more than 290,000 active criminal cases remain on the books.
This was one of the revelations shared by Benedicta van Minnen, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
Van Minnen also serves as the Democratic Alliance’s Western Cape spokesperson on police oversight and community safety.
“More than 90% of South Africa’s gang-related murders occur in this province,” she said in a press statement.
“This places an immense burden on our police officers and devastating communities that continue to live in fear.”
“The Western Cape cannot continue to bear this disproportionate share of the country’s violent crime without receiving the policing resources required to respond effectively.
She highlighted that the province remained under-resourced despite carrying the greatest burden of gang violence.
“Communities deserve a police service that is properly resourced and empowered to dismantle gangs and combat violent crime,” she said.
She called on the new Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape, William Dyantyi, to address the issue.
“We need a Provincial Commissioner who is prepared to engage frankly with the national government,” Van Minnen said.
“He must fight for the additional personnel, specialised units, detectives and operational resources that this province urgently requires.”
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The gang issue has always been the major cause of deaths in the WC and in the past it was because of Apartheid, now it’s thanks to the ANC’s neo-Apartheid, the latter mamparras particularly causing the huge incoming of economic refugees from the Eastern Cape running away from their corrupt incompetence. I have huge sympathy for the so-called coloured people down here: too black to start with, now too white.