Gun Free SA calls on SAPS to intensify fight against unlicenced firearms
This comes after eight people were shot and killed in three locations in Harare, in Khayelitsha on Wednesday.
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CAPE TOWN - Firearms advocacy group, Gun Free South Africa, is calling on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to intensify the fight against unlicenced firearms circulating in the streets.
This comes after eight people were shot and killed in three locations in Harare, in Khayelitsha on Wednesday.
The township is among the top-ranked in murders in the Western Cape.
Between October and December 2023, at least 60 people were killed in Harare alone.
Gun Free South Africa director, Adele Kirsten, said the mass shooting in Khayelitsha indicates that the country is at crisis levels when it comes to gun violence.
The organisation said the SAPS has the skills and resources to track and recover illegal firearms.
"The other thing that SAPS can do and this is the police ministry is bring the gun law amendment, Firearms Control Amendment Bill, to Parliament as soon as possible after the elections because we need to turn off the tap of the source of illegal guns."