EDITORIAL | Ending the epidemic of violence needs joint effort to uphold rule of law

For police to successfully stop or hunt down perpetrators of violence, they need the help and confidence of the community

17 July 2022 - 19:48

For the second weekend in a row South Africans were greeted by yet another bloody Sunday, as it emerged that 16 people had been gunned down in separate incidents in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape and Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, over the weekend...

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