The abuse she suffered, allegedly at the hands of her neighbour, left an elderly woman from Soweto-on-Sea so traumatised, she visited four different shops looking for rat poison so she could take her own life.
In a week that saw 10,000 additional boots hit the ground nationwide to bolster the SA Police Service, police in the Eastern and Western Cape are reportedly still grappling not just with staff shortages, but also a dwindling ammunition stockpile.