Bheki Cele wants 'further debate' on SA making it to the world's number three spot for crime.
Police minister Bheki Cele says the country's crime figures are used by"economic syndicates" to scare tourists and investors from SA. File photo.SA's crime statistics are being used as “propaganda” to chase investors and tourists away from the country, says police minister Bheki Cele.and other top cops were grilled by parliament's police portfolio committee on Thursday on issues ranging from the gutting of the SAPS budget to the force's bloated command structure.
Pretoria was rated the world's second-most dangerous city after Caracas, Venezuela, while Durban and Johannesburg took fourth and fifth places respectively, according to Numbeo data. A few years ago I went to London and asked to be driven to Brixton and the driver refused. He said 'you'll never come back from Brixton'.“Everybody, all the teams, the tourists, the visitors were going to be butchered in SA,” he said. “And that never happened.”
“A few years ago I went to London and asked to be driven to Brixton and the driver refused. He said 'you'll never come back from Brixton'.
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