Bring back the death penalty!! It will elevate the overpopulated prisons and take the scum off the street.

Jacob Zuma wants the help of the FBI to fight crime – why then did they disband the Scorpions? Are the law abiding citizens and taxpayers going for fork out the money for this too?

These are the very reasons I left beautiful South Africa. South Africa needs GOD. There is too much evil in the country. People who still believe in traditional beliefs. Muti killings, murder, the list goes on and on and on. When someone can laugh in such a situation as this, it is pure evil through and through. The majority of these South African people stuck in their traditional beliefs need to find GOD. South Africans need to wake up before it really is too late.

What does politics has to do with this.
Peolpe are robbed and gangraped almost everyday moslty blacks we never hear this

Why?

This is tragic and if it is true that SAPS took such a longtime to respond, it clearly shows the inefficiency of the SAPS.However,what is intersting to note is that when the victims are white then people start bandying around terms such as "did we trade Apartheid for this etc"as RB commented.
This is crime! Blacks are also victims of crime ,even more so.Unfortunately their stories do not make the front pages of Newspapers and are soon forgotten.To come back to the irrelevant point of Apartheid,under these circumstances, suffice it to say that yes Blacks were indeed the victims under this abhorrent Idealogue espoused by Whites (although not all of them).

Having said that it is important to realise that it is all our duty (Blacks and Whites and whatever shade in between)to see crime for what is is and work together to fight with all our might.-Figaro

This is how normal law abiding citizens are treated in SA, the criminals rule our country and we live in a constant state of tension and stress wondering when our time will come, its no longer a matter of "if" but "when"! This is no normal existence especially when such brute force is used, can someone please tell me why they dont just rob us and leave, why are they now resorting to such violence in our country?

We as South African's should shut-the-hell-up, as we are ALLOWING these criminals to continue to rule us and we continue to allow them to distill fear in our lives and the lives of our children because we are not FIGHTING BACK. We allow our beautiful country and it's people to be ruled by hippocrites who take home fat cheques in stead of us, the people, taking charge of our country and it's people!! STAND UP AGAINST THE PATHETIC GOVERNMENT AND IT'S USELESS, NON-EXISTING POLICE FORCE. An eye for an eye....

There is your ubuntu. There is your black consciousness. There is your freedom fighter. There is your African renaissance.There is your poor innocent victim of colonialism. PLEASE! Africa needs to stop blaming the world and the past, and look at the savage beast it IS!
Shame on you!

So we replaced Apartheid with this, wow what a trade. The mentality of some of the people on this continent becomes more clear every day, they dont care about anything.

Maybe Sally De Beer and Eugene Opperman should stop releasing scripted statements and get in cars themselves to respond to crimes.A sad situation in SA indeed.Glad im leaving to greener pastures.

I,m a home sick South African desperate to come home from Australia and the one and only reason I won't is because crime is out of control and the government has now will to do anything about it.