'A deeper failure': ActionSA flags Cape Town's 4 top murder stations in crime stats

ActionSA said that the latest crime statistics paint a grim picture of the conditions facing Cape Town communities.

Acting police minister Firoz Cachalia released national crime statistics for the second quarter of the current financial year.

The stats show a 3.1-percent decrease in contact crimes, but the overall figures remain high.

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The latest crime statistics reveal that four of South Africa’s top five murder police stations are in cape town, which are the Delft, Kraaifontein, Nyanga and Mfuleni police stations.

In a statement, ActionSA said the figures reveal that cape town has become the epicentre of a broader failure to curb violence in communities.

However, western cape premier Alan Winde said the statistics also indicate that progress is being made in the fight against murder.

"While I am outraged and disturbed by the murder rates in the province and across the country, we can see that cooperative and locally-managed policing programmes are reducing murder rates and urgently need to be funded by national government for implementation in every single policing precinct," said Winde.

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He said he murder rate decreased in areas where officers of the law enforcement advancement plan were deployed.