Rise Mzansi slams SAPS over failure to curb violent crime

Despite a drop in contact crimes during the second quarter of the current financial year, Rise Mzansi has said the South African police Service (SAPS) is still struggling to contain violent and organised crime.

Crime statistics released on Friday show a 3.1-percent decrease in contact crimes between July and September this year, compared to the same period last year.

While the country recorded a decline in murder over the period under review, sexual offences continue to rise.

Rise Mzansi national organiser Makashule Gana said police need to develop new strategies to combat the growing scourge of crime.

"Murder, rape and mass murders are still stubbornly high; and these are not just numbers but victims of a society and police service that has been criminally infiltrated and at war with itself".

As exposed by the Ad hoc committee and Madlanga Commission. The country and its people, in the last quarter, fell victim to more than 60 murders per day, with the cape flats being an area of particular concern. The minister of police recently

Revealed in a written parliamentary reply to Rise Mzansi that between January 2025 to March 2025, 668 were murdered on the Cape Flats. That is on average 7 people killed every day there alone.