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06-30-2008, 09:28 AM #2801
’n Man van Cullinan se laaste woorde, voordat hy voor sy vrou en dogtertjie dood is, was die naam van sy vermeende moordenaar.
Mnr. Johannes Jaftha, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê mnr. André Masset (57), ’n kunstenaar, is eergisteraand omstreeks 23:00 op sy kleinhoewe buite Cullinan doodgeskiet.
Sy vermeende moordenaar, ’n 28-jarige werker van ’n naburige plaas, is sowat twee uur later in hegtenis geneem.
Volgens Jaftha was Masset besig om in die een huis op die kleinhoewe te werk.
Sy vrou, Lianne Cox (38), en hul vyfjarige dogtertjie het in die ander huis op die kleinhoewe ’n DVD gekyk.
Dié twee huise is glo naby aan mekaar geleë.
“Ons is nog nie baie seker wat gebeur het nie, maar die vrou het vertel dat sy omstreeks 23:00 ’n skoot gehoor het,” het Jaftha gesê.
“Sy het by die venster uitgekyk, maar niks gesien nie.
“Masset het by die huis (waar sy vrou was) ingestruikel en vir sy vrou die naam gesê van wie moontlik die verdagte kan wees.
“Hy het toe voor sy vrou en dogtertjie beswyk,” het Jaftha gesê.
Masset is in die kakebeen geskiet en is op die toneel dood.
Jaftha het gesê Masset het die plaaswerker geken. Die verdagte het glo Masset se honde geken.
Daar was nie tekens van gedwonge toegang tot die erf of die huis nie.
Cullinan - Before dying in front of his wife and daughter, a man's last words were the name of his alleged killer.
Police spokesperson Johannes Jaftha said artist André Masset, 57, was shot dead about 23:00 on Saturday night on his smallholding outside Cullinan.
His alleged killer, a 28-year-old worker at a nearby farm, was arrested about two hours later.
Jaftha said Masset had been working in a house on the smallholding.
His wife, Lianne Cox, and their five-year-old daughter were watching a DVD in another house on the plot. The two houses were apparently close to each other.
Shot in the jaw
Jaftha said: "We're not sure yet what happened, but the woman (Cox) said she heard a shot about 23:00. She looked out of the window, but didn't see anything.
"Masset stumbled into the house and told his wife the name of the possible suspect.
"He then died in front of his wife and daughter," said Jaftha.
Masset was shot in the jaw.
Jaftha said Masset had known the farm worker.
06-30-2008, 09:30 AM #2802
Bay homeowner shot during scuffle in armed robbery
A 45-YEAR-OLD Port Elizabeth man was shot when he and his wife were held at gunpoint and robbed in their Keith Crescent, Overbaakens, home by four intruders at the weekend.
Police spokesman Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the men forced their way into the house just after 9pm on Friday.
“After entering the main entrance they went straight to the kitchen,” said Janse van Rensburg.
She added that the 43-year-old woman, who did not want to be named, had been overpowered by the attackers and her cries for help had woken up her husband.
“When her husband got to the kitchen he was confronted by the armed men.”
A scuffle ensued and one of the men shot the homeowner after which the intruders fled.
The husband was rushed to Provincial Hospital where he was in a stable condition.
06-30-2008, 09:39 AM #2803
Over 18 000 murders reported
More than 18 000 murders were reported between March last year and April this year, the South African Police service said on Monday.
In its crime statistics report, police said a total of 18 487 murder cases were reported. The crime ratio was 38.6 per 100 000 people.
In the previous period 19 202 people were murdered
06-30-2008, 10:02 AM #2804
Hunt on for syndicate targeting elite Eastern Cape holiday homes
POLICE are on a manhunt for dangerous criminals thought to be part of a Johannesburg-based syndicate targeting elite Eastern Cape holiday retreats, gaining entry to them by using domestic workers as “moles”. This follows the brutal attack and attempted murder of Jeffreys Bay businessman Arthur Joubert late last month, which shook the resort town.
And following a police bungle earlier this month in which one of the dangerous criminals arrested for the attack – Goodman Mhlangu – walked free from custody after allegedly buying bail application papers off a cellmate held for dagga possession, police are also offering a R10000 reward for information which will lead to his arrest.
Jeffreys Bay construction company owner Joubert this week told Weekend Post how he was stabbed, severely beaten and strangled to within an inch of his life by three “well-dressed men” who gained entry to his plush Wavecrest home late last month.
The men are thought to have gained entry to the home with the help of Joubert‘s newly recruited domestic worker, Lucy Mampotu Mbandla, from Hillbrow, Johannesburg, who is also on the run and wanted by police for further questioning for her part in the attack.
Jeffreys Bay Superintendent PJ Smit confirmed police were still searching for Mhlangu and Mbandla, as well as a third man involved in the attack.
Ali-Tholani Malulake, an accomplice in the attack, attempted murder and robbery, is being held by police and has been refused bail.
“We are looking into the possibility the gang are part of a syndicate, but at this stage we have no information to verify this,” Smit said. “Hillbrow police have a flat (thought to be used by the gang) under surveillance, but they have not yet returned and we believe they are heading back there.”
Smit said as yet the gang had not been linked to other robberies or attacks. Phone records link Mbandla to members of the gang, with calls made to and from the Joubert house phone from one specific cell number minutes before the attack.
“I walked into the house and just saw the three guys standing there,” Joubert recalled. “They were all well-dressed and they immediately came for me. I could see (Mbandla) in the background, trying to signal to the gang to keep the noise levels down. She did nothing to try and help me.”
The three men, who were also armed, proceeded to attack Joubert who managed to thwart attempts to shoot him. The fight, which lasted about 15 minutes, continued throughout the 400m² home and into the garage where one of the men tried to choke Joubert while another tied a rope round his neck and tried to strangle him. The third hit at him with a weed-eater and hacked his back with an idle chainsaw.
“I managed to hit the garage door remote and tried crawling out,” Joubert said. “The men grabbed me and pulled me back in, but a neighbour saw the commotion and called another neighbour and the police.
“The gang had me pinned to the floor and were about to stab me with a pitchfork when someone banged loudly on the door. Then they were gone.”
07-01-2008, 02:49 AM #2805
40 huise per dag
Altesame 40 huisgesinne is die afgelope jaar elke dag deur rowers in hul huise aangeval.
Die aantal huisrooftogte het landwyd met 13,5% gestyg, met die skerpste stygings in KwaZulu-Natal, die Vrystaat, Mpumalanga en die Oos-Kaap. Gauteng is die enigste provinsie wat ’n daling getoon het, hoewel die meeste huisrooftogte in totaal in dié provinsie aangemeld is.
Mnr. Charles Nqakula, minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit, was gister by toe die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) die misdaadstatistieke vir die jaar April 2007 tot Maart 2008 bekend gemaak het.
Die polisie sê in sy verslag dat Gautengers wat in die ryker woonbuurte “soos Brooklyn, Garsfontein, Sandton, Honeydew en Douglasdale woon, ’n groter kans staan om geteiken of tot gedood te word tydens huisrooftogte”.
Tydens die rooftogte is meestal vuurwapens betrokke.
“Omdat misdaad gereeld in ryker gebiede voorkom, is die kanse baie groter dat iemand bekend geteiken of selfs gedood kan word.
“Sulke voorvalle verskyn op koerante se voorblaaie en hoofopskrifte en weerklink oor die wêreld.
“Dié fokus en die selektiewe beriggewing oor misdaadstatistieke, skep ’n internasionale beeld van Suid-Afrika as ’n baie gewelddadige gemeenskap,” lui die verslag.
Die verslag lui dat hoewel huisrooftogte en motorkapings meestal in gegoede woonbuurte plaasvind, kom uiterste geweld wat in ernstige beserings of selfs die dood ontaard, in baie min voorvalle voor. Rowers wil tydens huisrooftogte meestal spesifieke goed hê soos kluis- of motorsleutels en hulle sal geweld gebruik om hul doel te bereik.
“Slagoffers mag ook dalk só optree dat hulle geweld ontlok.”
In Gauteng alleen is altesame 7 134 huisrooftogte aangemeld – die meeste in die land. Dit beteken dat 20 huisgesinne per dag in dié provinsie slagoffers was.
Gauteng word gevolg deur KwaZulu-Natal, met 3 480 voorvalle van huisroof, en Mpumalanga met 862.
Volgens die polisie het huisrooftogte landwyd met 13,5% gestyg en motorkapings met 4,4%.
Ander “kontakmisdade” wat wel gedaal het, sluit in ander rooftogte, verkragtings, poging tot moord, roof met verswarende omstandighede, aanranding, moord, aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer en onsedelike aanranding.
Verkragting het met 18,9% gedaal en moord met 14,7%.
Die polisie sê ’n algehele daling van 6,4% in die bogenoemde kontakmisdade is gedurende 2007-’08 bereik.
“Dit beteken sedert die instelling in 2004-’05 van die teiken van ’n daling van 7% tot 10% in kontakmisdade, is ’n gemiddelde jaarlikse daling van 7% in algemene voorvalle van dié misdade bereik,” lui die verslag.
Die DA het by monde van me. Dianne Kohler Barnard, LP en woordvoerder oor veiligheid en sekuriteit, gesê die daling in sekere syfers kan toegeskryf word aan mense se nalating om misdade aan te meld.
Verder is dit ’n groot leemte dat misdaadsyfers nié met vervolgingsyfers verreken word nie omdat dit ’n beter aanduiding van die sukses van misdaadbestryding sal gee.
“Ondanks herhaalde versoeke om geïntegreerde misdaadsyfers het ons nog geen aanduiding van hoeveel aangemelde misdade het tot arrestasies, hofverskynings en veroordelings gelei nie. Al wat die statistieke ons vertel, is hoeveel mense misdade aangemeld het, uitsluitend dié ontnugterdes wat nie meer so maak nie,” het Kohler Barnard gesê.
07-01-2008, 02:50 AM #2806
How safe are you in SA?
Police crime statistics offered some cheer for crime-weary South Africans, with violent crime - including rape, murder, attempted murder, assault and indecent assault - for the most part, declining over the past year.
Figures for the Western Cape on the whole also declined marginally, although there were marked increases in the number of drug-related crimes, robberies at residential premises and incidents where people were found to have been driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The Western Cape is still home to the country's murder capital, Nyanga, while several other suburbs in the province feature in crime categories such as murder, attempted murder, rape and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
There was a sharp increase in crimes against businesses, both nationally and provincially, particularly small enterprises.
ATM bombings increased and ordinary householders experienced more robberies and carjackings.
This is according to the latest annual report on crime statistics released on Monday by the South African Police Service in Pretoria.
The police claim an overall decrease of 6,4 percent in contact crimes, which account for one third of all the country's recorded serious crimes, for 2007/08, just missing the annual reduction target of between 7 percent and 10 percent set by the government in 2004.
But Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula was at pains to point out that, while some crime categories have shown a downward trend, "government is still concerned that the levels of crime continue to be unacceptably high".
"Government would have wanted to see a more drastic decrease in the (crime) levels given the interventions that have been made since we started publishing crime statistics regularly," he told journalists at the briefing.
The countrywide reduction of contact crimes includes common robbery (down 9,5 percent), attempted murder (down 7,5 percent), robbery with aggravating circumstances (down 7,4 percent), common assault (down 6,6 percent), murder (down 4,7 percent), assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm (down 4,6 percent) and indecent assault (down 2,1 percent).
But this is where the good news ends. Many other crime categories show significant increases.
While burglaries, break-ins to homes without a confrontation, went down by 4,7 percent, robberies where householders were threatened with violence went up by more than 13 percent.
Similarly, cash-in-transit heists are down by 15,4 percent, a decrease police say is a result of "concerted police action".
But some of the syndicates might have shifted their attention to ATM bombings, causing this type of crime to escalate dramatically.
These bombings amounted to 12 incidents in 2005, 54 in 2006, 386 in 2007 and a projected total of 538 for 2008.
Officials have also conceded that they were not winning the battle against the so-called trio crimes (house robbery, carjacking and business robbery), which have consistently increased over the past three years "despite various focused initiatives to counter them during 2006 and 2007".
Robberies at non-residential (mainly businesses) premises skyrocketed by 47,4 percent and truck hijackings went up by 39,6 percent compared to the previous year.
While car or motorcycle theft is down 7 percent and theft from motor vehicles down 10 percent, carjacking is up by more than 4 percent.
Nqakula revealed that 70 percent of all carjackings take place at either the owner's gates or in their driveways.
Sexual crimes continue to present authorities with a statistical nightmare.
Changes in December to the laws governing sexual offences make statistical comparisons with previous years almost fruitless.
And with rape and indecent assault among the most under-reported categories of crime, the police figures will continue to attract scepticism.
Police claim a 9,5 percent decline in reported rapes up to December last year when compared to the same period the year before.
Lawlessness among ordinary citizens has also contributed to the rise in some crime categories.
Police reported a significant 25,4 percent increase in the number of road users caught driving under the influence of alcohol and a 4,2 percent increase in the number of drug-related offences.
However, officials pointed out these figures do not necessarily suggest more offenders, but rather more offenders being caught and reflect more policing of these areas.
Officials also ascribe the higher recorded levels of drunk driving to the expansion of the Arrive Alive campaign from a holiday period campaign to one that runs throughout the year.
The report notes a high correlation between substance abuse and crime in general.
"People under the influence of drugs and alcohol may become aggressive and start arguments, which could turn into physical confrontations resulting in assault, rape, attempted murder or murder," the report warns.
It points out that drugs can be an expensive habit that drives people to commit property-related crimes, and concludes that "drugs are the primary substance fuelling organised crime and causing turf wars among gangs".
Nqakula said organised crime continued to be a "major problem" because of the damage it inflicted on society, and complained that syndicates often enjoyed the protection of the communities - especially in informal settlements - from which they operated.
"The conditions of life within the settlements have given rise to a sub-culture of tolerance to crime by some residents where space is given to criminals to commit crime willy-nilly in those and other areas.
"The criminals also buy silence from some residents who either co-operate out of fear or because they gain from some of the criminal activities," the minister told journalists at the briefing.
07-01-2008, 02:52 AM #2807
Pretoria one of SA's most dangerous
Pretoria ranks among the most dangerous places in the country when it comes to house robberies, with three of the capital's suburbs falling within the top 20 most dangerous and violent areas to live in.
The capital also has the dubious honour of having four of its areas fall within the 10 most dangerous places when it comes to attempted murder, rape, street robberies and assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm (assault GBH)
This was revealed on Monday during the release of the SAPS annual crime statistics at the Union Buildings.
The statistics are for the 2007/08 financial year, from April 1 2007 to March 31 this year.
Violent crimes such as murder, attempted murder, rape, cash-in-transit heists, common assault, indecent assault, assault GBH and aggravated (violent) robberies have decreased marginally across South Africa as the rate of contact crime dropped overall by 6,4 percent.
A breakdown of violent robberies, however, paints a different picture, showing that crimes such as hijackings, house, business and bank robberies have continued to soar.
Hijackings, house, business and bank robberies, as well as cash-in-transit heists are a sub-section of aggravated robberies - one of the crimes that government has tasked the Safety and Security Department to reduce by between 7 percent and 10 percent by 2009.
The department missed its target, with the figures showing an increase of nearly 2 percent from seven years ago.
The worst provinces for hijackings, house and business robberies were Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, which accounted for 80 percent of the country's 14 201 car hijackings, 74,5 percent of the 14 481 house robberies and 71,2 percent of the 9 862 business robberies.
KwaZulu-Natal recorded a 92,9 percent increase in business robberies.
The robberies increased from 997 to 1 923 in KwaZulu-Natal.
Free State, Limpopo and the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, although having relatively few attacks, recorded dramatic increases of 380,6 percent (62 to 298), 278,3 percent (83 to 314), 237,5 percent (16 to 54), 222,3 percent (197 to 635) and 102,5 percent (241 to 488) respectively.
This shows crime is spreading to areas that have been relatively safe in the past.
Gauteng accounted for 52,6 percent of car hijackings (7 466), 50,5 percent of house robberies (7 314) and 51,7 percent of business robberies (5 098).
While Pretoria and its policing areas were not on the country's top 10 hot spot lists when it came to murders, the capital didn't fare well in terms of robberies and other violent crimes such as rape.
Wierdabrug, Brooklyn and Garsfontein ranked eighth, 13th and 15th respectively out of the 20 most dangerous policing areas when it came to house robberies.
Erasmia, along with Wierdabrug, fell within the top 20 most dangerous areas when it came to truck hijackings, coming in at 15th and 16th respectively.
Atteridgeville, Mamelodi East and Rietgat all fall within the top 10 most dangerous places when it comes to attempted murder, rape and assault GBH.
Out of the 20 most dangerous areas in South Africa for street robberies - Pretoria Central - ranked fifth while Sunnyside ranked 18th.
At the time of going to press, the statistics for the country's various police stations were not available.
Nick Pascoe, the metro police's Garsfontein civilian oversight member, said he was alarmed about Garsfontein's ranking.
"Policing is not progressing as it should. Crime has come to stay and until the government takes proper action, makes crime prevention important and provides a proper budget, crime will stay."
Asked what the SAPS was doing to reduce aggravated robberies, Deputy Police Commissioner Andre Pruis said they had been given a week to come up with a new proposal on how to deal with "these crimes".
The deadline follows a crime strategy planning session in June last year that appeared to have failed in some areas.
"Because not all crimes can be fought with the same strategy, we will be looking at new strategies.
"These include the deployment of specialised units in new ways as well as approaching investigations from different angles, such as the centralising of dockets," he said.
He said they had seen "incredible" successes when case dockets had been centralised.
Pruis said the new proposals would look at what had worked in the past, and what had not, in order to come up with new strategies.
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said: "The government is always concerned that crime levels continue to remain at an unacceptably high level. We would have wanted a more drastic decrease."
Crime: last year's figures; this year's figures
Murder: 19 202; 18 487
Attmurder: 20 142; 18 795
Rape: 39 304; 36 190
Indecent assault: 6 812; 6 763
Assault GBH: 218 030; 210 104
Robbery with aggravated circumstances: 126 558; 118 312
Car hijackings: 13 599; 14 201
House robberies: 12 761; 14 481
Business robberies: 6 689; 9 862
Bank robberies: 129; 144
KZN hardest hit by crime
Crime stats reveal hijacking hot spots
07-01-2008, 02:54 AM #2808
Hoë styging in rooftogte
KAAPSTAD. – Hoewel ernstige geweldsmisdaad in die Wes-Kaap soos in die res van die land in die afgelope boekjaar afgeneem het, slaan misdadigers hier al hoe meer toe op huise en ondernemings.
Die nuutste misdaadstatistieke wys dat rooftogte by sakeondernemings hier sedert 1 April verlede jaar tot 1 Maart vanjaar met 222,3% toegeneem het en dié by wonings met 21%.
Die misdaadstatistieke vir dié tydperk is gister in die Uniegebou in Pretoria deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) bekend gemaak. Mnr. Charles Nqakula, minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit, was ook teenwoordig.
Volgens die statistieke het sowat 635 rooftogte in dié tydperk by Wes-Kaapse ondernemings plaasgevind teenoor die vorige jaar se 197.
Verder is 796 huise vanjaar beroof, teenoor die vorige jaar se 658. Rooftogte by huise vind landwyd tussen 18:00 en 05:59 plaas, met die meeste, sowat 32%, tussen 00:00 en 02:59.
Dié soort rooftogte is in Gauteng erger as in die Wes-Kaap.
Hoewel kontakmisdaad landwyd met 6,4% afgeneem het, is in die Wes-Kaap ook nie die mikpunt van ’n daling van tussen 7% en 10% behaal wat die regering hom in 2004 ten doel gestel het nie.
Moord het volgens die statistieke met 3,5% in die Wes-Kaap afgeneem, met sowat 58,6 mense wat steeds uit elke 100 000 hier vermoor word, en verkragting met 7%, met 82,6 voorvalle uit elke 100 000 mense. Poging tot moord het met 11,6% afgeneem.
Motorkapings het egter met 1,3% toegeneem, terwyl ernstige aanranding afgeneem het met 5,6%, gewone aanranding met 8,6% en swaar roof met 6,2%. Gewone rooftogte het met 3,3% afgeneem.
In die Wes-Kaap, wat landwyd bekend is vir sy stryd teen bendes en dwelms, het die onwettige besit van vuurwapens en ammunisie met 8,9% afgeneem.
Dwelmverwante misdade het egter met 9,9% toegeneem, terwyl dronkbestuur met 18,9% die hoogte ingeskiet het.
Inwoners van veral Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Nyanga en Kaapstad se middestad het die grootste kans om onder straatrooftogte – waarin hul persoonlike besittings geroof word – deur te loop.
Nie een woonbuurt in die Wes-Kaap tel egter onder die twintig wat landwyd die ergste onder huis- en sakeperseel-rooftogte óf motorkapings deurgeloop het nie.
In die Wes-Kaap word die meeste moorde in Nyanga, Harare, Khayelitsha, Guguletu, Delft en Kraaifontein gepleeg, terwyl die meeste voorvalle van poging tot moord in Nyanga en Mitchells Plain aangemeld is.
Nyanga, Harare, Mitchells Plain en Khayelitsha het die meeste verkragtings ervaar, terwyl Nyanga en Worcester ook onder die 20 gebiede landwyd is wat die ergste deurgeloop het onder voorvalle van aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer.
Misdaad soos onsedelike aanranding, brandstigting, opsetlike saakbeskadiging, huisbraak, diefstal van motors én motorfietse én diefstal uit motors het ook in die afgelope boekjaar afgeneem.
Handelsmisdaad soos bedrog het egter met 21,2% toegeneem en winkeldiefstal met 4,4%.
Sr.supt. Billy Jones, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê komm. Mzwandile Petros, Wes-Kaapse polisiehoof, sal dié statistieke Donderdag saam met die bevelvoerders van die 23 prioriteitsgebiede hier met die media bespreek.
Intussen het adv. Lennit Max, DA-woordvoerder oor gemeenskapsveiligheid, gesê die toename in dwelmverwante misdaad toon dat dwelms steeds wyd beskikbaar is in die Wes-Kaap.
Rooftogte en onsedelike aanranding styg skerp
PORT ELIZABETH. – Rooftogte by sakepersele in die Oos-Kaap het van April 2007 tot Maart vanjaar meer as verdubbel en huisrooftogte is ’n kort-kop agter.
Dít was van die skoksyfers wat gister uitgelig is toe die polisie sy nasionale misdaadstatistieke bekend gemaak het.
Waar 241 sakerooftogte in 2006-’07 in die provinsie aangemeld is, staan die syfer vir die ooreenstemmende tyd vir 2007-’08 op 488. Dit dui op ’n toename van 102,5% en is die tweede hoogste toename in dié misdaadkategorie landwyd.
Rooftogte by huise het met 92,4% toegeneem van 344 in 2006-’07 tot 662 in 2007-’08.
Ten spyte hiervan het die provinsie die landwye tendens gevolg en ’n afname in die meeste vorme van geweldsmisdade getoon.
Die aantal moorde wat in die Oos-Kaap aangemeld is, het met 104 (of 2,9%) afgeneem van 3 619 in 2006-’07 tot 3 515 die afgelope jaar.
Poging tot moord het toegeneem met 0,8% van 2 142 in die vorige jaar tot 2 160.
Aangesien wetgewing oor verkragting in Desember verlede jaar verander het, toon die statistieke slegs die aangemelde gevalle tussen April en Desember verlede jaar. In dié nege maande is 5 499 gevalle aangemeld, teenoor die 5 807 in die vorige jaar.
Onsedelike aanranding het met 8,1% toegeneem van 707 in die vorige jaar tot 764. Sedert 2001 het onsedelike aanranding in die Oos-Kaap met 43,6% toegeneem – die hoogste in enige provinsie.
Aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer (-2,6%), aanranding (-5,8%), roof (-7,7%), roof met verswarende omstandighede (-3,2%) en motorkapings (-0,5%) het volgens die statistieke ’n afname getoon.
Ook handelsmisdade (-6,7%), diefstal by huise (-6,5%) en die diefstal van motors en motorfietse (-16,5%) het afgeneem. Diefstal by sakeondernemings het egter met 12% toegeneem.
Van die ander misdade wat ’n beduidende toename oor die afgelope jaar getoon het, is vragmotorkapings (21,7%), transito-rooftogte (95%) en dwelmverwante misdade (10,4%).
Dir. Marinda Mills, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê daar heers groot kommer oor die toename in rooftogte. Die polisie doen tans ’n operasie wat fokus op die bekamping van dié misdaad.
Mills het daarop gewys dat ’n landwye bevolkingsaanwas en die instroming van buitelanders daartoe gelei het dat meer sakeondernemings as vantevore op die been gebring is.
Sy het verduidelik rowers slaan eerder toe wanneer mense by die huis of by hul ondernemings is.
“Alarmstelsels is dan afgeskakel en mense is op hul gemak, wat ’n rooftog vergemaklik.”
Mnr. Bobby Stevenson, Oos-Kaapse DA-LPW en die party se woordvoerder oor veiligheid en sekuriteit, het gesê dit is skrikwekkend dat mense nie meer veilig in hul eie huise is nie.
“Die DA is wel verlig dat ’n afname in die meeste geweldsmisdade waargeneem kan word.”
Mnr. Ncedo Kumbaca, woordvoerder van die Oos-Kaapse departement van veiligheid en sekuriteit, het gesê die afname in geweldsmisdade dui op goeie werk deur die polisie.
Hy het bevestig die provinsiale LUR vir veiligheid en sekuriteit, mnr. Thobile Mhlahlo, werk ook nou saam met die private sekerheidsektor om rooftogte hok te slaan.
07-01-2008, 03:01 AM #2809
07-01-2008, 07:31 AM #2810
Statistical breakdown of crimes committed in SA over past year
A BREAKDOWN of the national crime statistics recorded between April 1 last year and March 31, as reported by the SA Police Service. The number of incidents is calculated per 100000 people:
Murder: 18487 cases reported, 38,6 incidents.
Attempted murder: 18795 cases reported, 39,3 incidents.
Assault with the intent to commit grievous bodily harm (or GBH): 210104 cases reported, 439,1 incidents.
Common assault:198049 cases reported, 413,9 incidents.
Common robbery 64985 cases reported, 135,8 incidents.
Arson: 7396 cases reported, 15,5 incidents.
Malicious damage to property: 136968 cases reported, 286,2 incidents.
Burglary at residential premises: 237853 cases reported, 497,1 incidents.
Burglary at non-residential premises: 62995 cases reported, 131,7 incidents.
Motor vehicle and motorcycle theft: 88226 cases reported, 167,7 incidents.
Theft out of motor vehicles; 111661 cases reported, 233,4 incidents.
Stock theft; 28778 cases reported, 60,1 incidents.
Illegal possession of firearms or ammunition: 13476 cases reported, 28,2 incidents.
Drug-related crime: 109134 cases reported, 228,1 incidents.
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol: 48405 cases reported, 101,2 incidents.
Theft not mentioned elsewhere: 395296 cases reported, 826,1 incidents.
Commercial crime: 65286 cases reported, 136,4 incidents.
Shoplifting: 66992 cases reported, 140 incidents.
Culpable homicide: 13184 cases reported, 27,6 incidents.
Kidnapping: 2323 cases reported, 4,9 incidents.
Abduction: 2728 cases reported, 5,7 incidents.
Neglect or ill-treatment of children: 4106 cases reported, 8,6 incidents.
Public violence: 895 cases reported, 1,9 incidents.
Crimen injuria: 33064 cases reported or 69,1 incidents.
Rape: 36190 cases reported, 75,6 incidents.
*The law regarding rape cases has changed to include male rape: the crime statistics only reflect rape and indecent assault statistics between April and December last year.
Indecent assault: 6763 case reported, 14,1 incidents.
Aggravated robbery: 118,312 cases reported, 247,3 incidents.
*This included 14201 car hijacking incidents or 29,7 incidents and 1245 truck hijacking incidents. It also included 14481 incidents of robbery at residential properties or 30,3 cases per 100000 people, and 9852 incidents of robbery at non-residential properties or 20,6 incidents per 100000 people.
There were 395 cases of cash-in-transit robberies or 0,8 incidents per 100000 people, and 144 bank robberies or 0,3 incidents per 100000 people.
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