Rural areas now easy targets

We conversed with friends over the massacres that have hit the Eastern Cape lately. We spoke of them for what they are.

- KEKELETSO NAKELI

We dissected this loss of lives and spoke of the nothingness that life had been reduced to and the ease in which people have exchanged words with the loss of life. This is an ugly place to be in.

Now that we have come to terms as to where we are, we should be honest with ourselves, at the very least, with the remedy to this societal ill we are plagued with.

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world. There were more than 27,000 murders in 2022 - amounting to 45 people per 100,000, out of a population of almost 60 million.