However, Anroux Marais, the Police Oversight and Community Safety MEC, cautioned against “unrealistic expectations”.
You might want to think thrice the next time you feel like flipping the bird to some a**hole on the road in Jozi.
It is alarming to think that between April 2022 and March 2023, more than 27,000 South Africans were slain.
The situation is so bad that police have labelled the area a “red zone”, meaning ambulances cannot freely travel without a police escort.
When it comes to the overall crime in South Africa, Cape Town has quite the dirty little secret. Unfortunately these statistics paint an ugly picture.
Folks in the Big Apple are pretty stoked right now as the city goes on a murder-free run for the record books. Seems like fun, maybe we can hop on this train.