{"id":317714,"date":"2026-05-22T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/?p=317714"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:09:25","slug":"meer-as-5-000-moorde-in-3-maande-maar-syfers-toon-effense-daling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/meer-as-5-000-moorde-in-3-maande-maar-syfers-toon-effense-daling\/","title":{"rendered":"Meer as 5 000 moorde in 3 maande, maar syfers toon effense daling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meer as 5 000 mense is tussen Januarie en Maart vanjaar in Suid-Afrika vermoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens die vierde kwartaal se misdaadstatistieke vir die 2025\/2026-boekjaar is 5 181 moorde landswyd aangeteken \u2013 546 minder as die 5 727 moorde wat in dieselfde kwartaal verlede jaar aangemeld is. Dit verteenwoordig \u2019n daling van 9,5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcf8\ud83d\udcf8 Minister of Police, Firoz Cachalia, Deputy Minister Cassel Mathale, together with Acting National Commissioner of Police, Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane, present the quarterly crime statistics for the fourth quarter of the 2025\/26 financial year, reflecting on crimes\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZT2mmEyXg6\">pic.twitter.com\/ZT2mmEyXg6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; South African Government (@GovernmentZA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernmentZA\/status\/2057800176883159380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die waarnemende minister van polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het Vrydag in Pretoria ges\u00ea die syfers wys wel op vordering, maar dat die vlakke van geweld steeds \u201cheeltemal onaanvaarbaar\u201d hoog bly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHierdie syfers is nie net nommers nie. Agter elke statistiek is daar \u2019n getraumatiseerde slagoffer, \u2019n bedroefde familie en \u2019n gemeenskap wat in vrees leef,\u201d het Cachalia ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het ges\u00ea die land beleef steeds gemiddeld 58 moorde per dag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2019n Afname in misdaad beteken nie mense is veilig nie. Die vlakke van geweld en misdadigheid in Suid-Afrika bly veels te hoog,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens Cachalia het geweldsmisdade, wat deur die polisie as kontakmisdade geklassifiseer word, met 4,6% afgeneem. Dit beteken 7 405 minder gevalle van geweldsmisdaad is aangemeld as in dieselfde tydperk verlede jaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het ges\u00ea huisrooftogte het met 20,4% gedaal, sakerooftogte met 18,3%, en rooftogte by nie-residensi\u00eble persele met 22%. Ontvoerings het ook met 2% afgeneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cachalia het egter gewaarsku dat geweld diep gewortel bly in gemeenskappe en dikwels binne huishoudings plaasvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDie huis, waar mense eintlik die veiligste behoort te wees, is vir te veel van ons mense \u2019n gevaarlike plek,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens die statistieke het 1 523 moorde in die woning van die slagoffer of oortreder plaasgevind, terwyl byna die helfte van alle verkragtings \u2013 4 620 uit 9 782 gevalle \u2013 by huise gepleeg is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGeweld in Suid-Afrika gaan nie net oor vreemdelinge wat vreemdelinge aanval nie. Dit gaan oor lewensmaats, familielede, bure en kennisse,\u201d het Cachalia ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het ges\u00ea argumente, jaloesie, padwoede en wraak bly groot drywers van geweldsmisdaad. Volgens die syfers is 898 moorde aan argumente en misverstande gekoppel, 299 aan vigilante-optrede en 251 aan wraakaanvalle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cachalia het ook die rol van alkoholmisbruik in geweld beklemtoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHoe meer alkohol ons gebruik, hoe meer geweld sal ons ervaar. Ons moet hierdie werklikheid erken en begin optree om alkoholmisbruik te verminder,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens die statistieke is 7 267 gevalle van moord, poging tot moord, verkragting en ernstige aanranding met alkoholgebruik verbind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die minister het verder gewaarsku dat georganiseerde misdaad steeds \u2019n groot bedreiging vir die land bly, veral in ekonomiese spilpunte soos Gauteng, die Wes-Kaap, KwaZulu-Natal en die Oos-Kaap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDit is nie opportunistiese misdade nie. Dit is die werk van georganiseerde misdaadsindikate wat hoogs mobiel, swaar gewapen en diep gevestig in ons ekonomiese sentrums is,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het spesifiek verwys na afpersing en die sogenaamde \u201cboumafia\u201d, wat volgens hom dienslewering kniehalter, klein ondernemings vernietig en belegging afskrik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cachalia het ges\u00ea die polisie beplan nou \u2019n \u201creset\u201d-strategie om polisi\u00ebring te verbeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOns doel is om \u2019n moderne, professionele en betroubare polisiediens te bou wat die veiligheid van ons mense eerste stel,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het bevestig dat daar groter fokus op gemeenskapspolisi\u00ebring en samewerking met plaaslike veiligheidsstrukture gaan wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDie polisie moet saam met mense op plaaslike vlak werk om doeltreffend te wees,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-afriforum-minister-moet-nou-daad-by-die-woord-voeg\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">AfriForum: \u2018Minister moet nou daad by die woord voeg\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intussen het die burgerregteorganisasie, AfriForum, ges\u00ea die jongste syfers wys dat die polisie steeds nie daarin slaag om gemeenskappe voldoende te beskerm nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens AfriForum bly geweldsmisdaad \u201ckommerwekkend hoog\u201d, ondanks die geringe daling in sekere kategorie\u00eb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum se woordvoerder vir gemeenskapsveiligheid, het ges\u00ea polisi\u00ebring kan nie effektief vanuit \u2019n sentrale bestuursmodel bestuur word nie omdat misdaaduitdagings van streek tot streek verskil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het ges\u00ea die organisasie verwelkom Cachalia se positiewe houding teenoor groter samewerking met plaaslike veiligheidstrukture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDie waarnemende minister moet nou daad by die woord voeg en amptelike samewerkingsooreenkomste met plaaslike veiligheidstrukture aangaan sodat daar nie net \u2019n geringe daling in die misdaadstatistieke aangeteken word nie, maar \u2019n daadwerklike verskil op voetsoolvlak gevoel word,\u201d het Broodryk ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens AfriForum dien sy 177 plaas- en buurtwagte reeds as \u2019n \u201cmagsvermenigvuldiger\u201d vir die polisie in verskeie gemeenskappe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meer as 5 000 mense is tussen Januarie en Maart vanjaar in Suid-Afrika vermoor. Volgens die vierde kwartaal se misdaadstatistieke vir die 2025\/2026-boekjaar is 5 181 moorde landswyd aangeteken \u2013 546 minder as die 5 727 moorde wat in dieselfde kwartaal verlede jaar aangemeld is. Dit verteenwoordig \u2019n daling van 9,5%. 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