There is almost no research evidence that policing in South Africa reduces crime or improves feelings of safety. Does this mean that police have no positive impact? Not at all. Rather, the link between their activities and goals has not been competently shown. But working together, South Africa’s police and research community can change this.
In the 2019/20 financial year, the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) 187 000 employees spent roughly 365-million hours and R96-billion trying to achieve their goals. Among their many reported activities, they stopped and searched 6 289 939 vehicles and 3 802 393 individuals.
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Police carried out 5 736 264 visits to shopping complexes, 4 519 733 visits to spaza shops, and 5 736 246 visits to ATMs. They convened 32 769 roadblocks, and arrested 1 133 891 people for ‘serious crimes’. Did these activities make South Africa safer? Possibly, but nobody really knows.
Crime Stats: Nearly 5000 South Africans were murdered in just three month
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By Shaun Smillie and Siyabonga Mkhwanazi
In three months, 4 976 people were killed in South Africa as the country’s murder rate continues its climb after the brief respite brought on by the Covid 19 lockdown.
Murders, nationally, increased by 8,4 % fuelled in part by dramatic rises in the number of killings in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. In the Eastern Cape, the number of murders increased by 21,5 % from January to March 2020 to the same time the following year. KwaZulu-Natal saw an increase of 16,9% over the same period.
Gauteng’s murder rate increase was just under 4%. The Gauteng police station with the highest number of murders between January and March this year was Ivory Park, with 40 killings.
The Streetjournal Magazine is an online investigating media house that specializes on systematic, serious crimes, political corruption or corporate wrongdoing.
Peter FabriciusIs, a Consultant with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is asking a some what very pertinent question at the moment. His question is, is it time to bring the UN Security Council into the bitter dispute over Ethiopia’s dam?
The question is coming as tensions are once again growing among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, along with the water in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The annual rainy season is already here. Ethiopia will almost certainly undertake a second filling of the 74 billion cubic metre capacity reservoir if there is no prior agreement otherwise among the three disputants.
Boko Haram Distributes Ramadan Packages, Cash To Borno, Yobe Residents
SaharaReporters gathered that the package distributed by the insurgents included rice, beans, millet, maize, sugar, spageheti and cash gifts.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 11, 2021
Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da wah wa l-Jihād have distributed Ramadan welfare packages to some residents of Borno and Yobe states.
SaharaReporters gathered that the package distributed by the insurgents included rice, beans, millet, maize, sugar, spageheti and cash gifts.
A security source said the gesture was to induce the villagers to join the group’s ranks as militants.