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Murder rate hits 20-year high

Crime statistics

l ‘Particularly alarming is increase in violence levels’ – ISS criminologist l ‘We are on the brink of a mafia state’ – activist Yusuf Abramjee

South Africa’s murder rate is back to the high levels last seen 20 years ago, leaving experts and commentators concerned.

Just two months into the year, South Africans already have to navigate debilitating load shedding, which was recently declared a national disaster, high food prices, heavy rainfall and flooding – and

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