Police Minister Bheki Cele has announced that 3,144 people were murdered with guns in the last three months of 2022. He says while cops will intensify their focus on illegal firearms, the problem boils down to human behaviour. While he did not say it outright, this inevitably includes cop corru.
12 September 2022 - In view of the extent of violent crime in South Africa, and specifically the recent spate of horrific tavern shootings, there have been renewed calls for expanded and more rigid firearm control. Some, like News24 s Adriaan Basson, have suggested a near complete ban on civilian gun ownership, along the lines of the Japanese model. Police Minister Bheki Cele has long expressed similar intentions, and a proposed amendment to the Firearms Control Act (FCA) would push South Africa along the path to this objective.
Despite several promises that issues with the Central Firearms registry would be fixed, there has been no change, leaving South Africans vulnerable to gun crime, writes the Institute of Race Relations' Jivika Singh.
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