👮♀️DA calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire the police minster after concerning crime stats were released. Catch up on the crime stats here: CrimeStats BhekiCele
’s spokesperson on police, Andrew Whitfield, said the latest crime stats confirmed that the bloodbath of violent crime remains out of control across the country with millions of people living in fear.
“Under Bheki Cele’s leadership of the South African Police Service , more people are being murdered, raped and assaulted than ever before while President Ramaphosa looks on from London and continues giving minister Cele his full support,” said Whitfield, referring to Ramaphosa’s visit to the UK this week for King Charles III’s first state visit.Whitfield said when Ramaphosa was elected into office, he promised to halve violent crime within 10 years, but nothing has changed.
“He is now almost halfway through this ten-year period and violent crime has increased exponentially because the truth is that the president is soft on crime.“The DA has repeatedly warned the president that violent crime will not be halved with minister Cele at the helm of the Saps. “How can it be that a minister is able to continue serving in this position when in the last 3 months 7 004 people were murdered and 10 590 people were raped? It is unconscionable that President Ramaphosa rewards minister Cele for his continued under performance.”Whitfield claimed Ramaphosa’s “soft approach to crime” was a declaration of war on women and children in South Africa.
“South Africa needs a wartime president, not a tea-time president! It is time for the president to put down his teacup, leave the palace and return to his people who are living in a permanent state of fear in a country which resembles a war zone,” Whitfield said.
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