Lusikisiki surpasses KZN's Inanda as SA rape capital
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Nokukhanya N Mntambo
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Police Minister Bheki Cele hailed the country's crime fighting efforts on Friday when he released the quarterly crime statistics for the period from 1 January to the end of March.
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Cele said he believes the quarter's figures are an indication that some of the policing shortcomings have been addressed.
But the murder rate has been slow to respond to Cele's efforts, with close to 5000 people killed in the first three months of 2021.
"The top four causative factors of these murders still remain arguments, robberies, both residential and non-residential and street robberies, mob justice and gang-related incidents," said Cele.