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BOSA Leader Mmusi Maimane.
Build One South Africa leader, Mmusi Maimane, has lamented the increasing number of brutal murders in South Africa.
He says about 26 000 people were killed last year alone.
Maimane says President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to take decisive action to end crime in the country.
During the debate on the 2025/2026 Presidency Budget vote in the National Assembly, he states, “Mr President, when you look at the trend line of crime 26 000 people were murdered last year. Were you to take their coffins and line them up. They would line up from your door in Hyde Park. All the way to the Union Buildings. As you drove that road every single day, Mr President, you will realise that we are dealing with a serious problem of murder. Mr President, I speak to you not as one who’s living in peaceful times. But one is living in wartime. You’re living in a geopolitical terror force.”
Meanwhile, crime statistics for the fourth quarter of 2024/25 by the South African Police Services in May show a decrease in many crime categories; however, the number of crime occurrences is still extremely high.
During this period, close to 6 000 people were murdered.
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