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Mass Shootings Will Continue to Add More Victims to the 9000 Already Dead

Dear Editor

This morning’s shooting in Nyanga, which claimed one life and injured seven others, alongside the murder of nine people at a tavern in Mpumalanga over the weekend, underscores the SAPS’s inability to act proactively and the lack of crime intelligence.

The Minister of Police’s recent revelation that 9,000 people were killed in mass shootings between 2019 and 2023 highlights the severity of the crime crisis in our country. Citizens and police officers alike live in fear, with a growing number of officers themselves becoming victims of violent crime.

We need significant change with regards to crime intelligence to ensure that these incidents can be stopped before they happen. Most of these incidents are planned and can be prevented if the right intelligence structures are in place.

This would entail amongst others a skills audit to determine whether the right people are in positions and to introduce well-trained recruits to start building relevant localised capacity. It is also crucial to determine the origins of leaks that compromise good police officers.

We once again call on the minister to devolve policing powers so that all can assist to fight this scourge against South Africans.

The DA supports the Minister’s proposed law reforms to outlaw gang membership and urges the government to act swiftly to implement these measures. South Africans cannot continue to live under siege. It is time for decisive action to restore law and order.

Regards

Ian Cameron MP
DA Spokesperson on Police

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  1. An retired elderly couple visit London..

    They get picked up from the airport in a london black cab and head off into the city for some adventure.

    The cab driver say \”where you from guvnor?

    Husband. \”we\’re from South Africa\”..

    The wife is a little hard of hearing asks her husband.

    \”What did he say?\”

    The husband turns to his wife and says louder \”the cab driver asked us where we were from, I told him South Africa!\”

    The cabbie continues \”I was in the merchant navy years back… I got to drop anchor down your way, a few times in Johannesburg\”

    The husband replies \”oh wow that\’s where we\’re from originally, now we\’re in Cape Town.\”

    The wife asks the husband again \”what did he say?\”.

    The husband again relays the unheard conversation \”the cab driver says he spent some time in the navy and went down to joberg\”.

    The wife smiles and nods.

  2. Fun South African Travel tip: You can visit the hominid fossil displays and learn more about the beginnings of our planet at the Maropeng Visitors Centre and Sterkfontein Caves.