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Report on hits paints a grim picture

Two assassinations a week carried out in SA

A report looking into the spate of assassinations has revealed that at least two were carried out weekly, making up 141 contract killings in 2022.

These include hits carried out on politicians or their rivals, taxi bosses, personal assassinations and organised crime killings.

The recently released report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, titled The Business of Killing: Assassinations in South Africa, looks at organised killings over the 2021 and 2022 period.

It (the report) was authored by Rumbi Matamba, an analyst

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