Africa-Press – Botswana. Crime in South Africa, one of the most violent countries in the world, has worsened significantly in the last quarter of 2021, with an average of 74 homicides and 122 daily rape complaints, announced Friday (18), the South African government. African.
One person is killed in the country every 20 minutes. The number of homicides, up 8.9 percent, “remains stubbornly worrying”, acknowledged the Minister of Internal Administration, Bheki Celebrar, at a press conference in Pretoria.
In the last three months of 2021, the Police recorded a total of 6,859 homicides. , including 902 women and 352 children, nearly 700 more in total than in the previous quarter.
South African police attributed the increase in killings in the third quarter of 2021 mainly to the unprecedented riots that rocked the country in July and resulted in the death of 350 people.
The number of violations was officially 11,315 in the last quarter of 2021 (against 9,556 cases in the previous quarter), representing, on average, one violation reported to the Police every twelve minutes, not counting the cases of unreported violations.
The South African minister reiterated that femicide is one of his Ministry’s urgent priorities, stressing that more than 90,000 police officers have been trained to better deal with victims of sexual crimes.
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