TUESDAY EDITORIAL: Violent crime is soaring in South Africa and retribution isn’t working – it’s time for restorative justice

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South Africa knows violence very well. The majority was violently oppressed by the apartheid government, with a struggle for freedom, characterised by petrol bombs and necklacing and a contested birthing of democracy where people were regularly thrown ...

has called for a murder-reduction stategy and attributed the high murder rate to a “

The ISS has identified that South Africa’s murder rate is highest in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and that in “39% of cases , the cause could be attributed to arguments and misunderstandings, often between acquaintances or relatives. This is a testament to how normalised violence is in everyday life. The second-most common circumstance in which murders were committed was during a robbery .

“Given the frustration levels in high-crime communities, it is not surprising that vigilantism was the third-most noted cause at 15%. Murders attributed to gangs, taxi conflict and illicit mining violence together made up 18%.”Under-resourced police services – the available number of policemen per community, vehicles not working and police stations being attacked – is an aggravating factor for the unabated violence.

Emaan Solomons died after she was struck by a stray bullet outside her home in Ocean View, Cape Town on 27 February 2020.

 

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