Buffalo City Metro, OR Tambo and Nelson Mandela are the most problematic districts in terms of criminal activities in the province, Eastern Cape community safety MEC Xolile Nqatha says. Speaking on Friday in Dikeni, during the fourth quarter crime statistics release for the 2022/23 financial year, Nqatha said these districts were the worst in the province in terms of cases of murder, attempted murder, assault, robbery and sexual offences.
Two more bodies have been found in the same area where two men, one believed to have been a prison warder, were found burnt beyond recognition inside a government vehicle in a forest near Kaplan, less than 10km outside Mthatha, on Saturday.
The South African Policing Union has called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire national police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola over his “inability” to fight the high levels of crime.