Is Pretoria under siege?

[The Cosmos]

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Violent crime is so high in the eastern and northern suburbs of Pretoria that specialised police task teams have been established specifically to deal with thugs terrorising those areas.

This was revealed by Tshwane executive mayor, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, during a visit to seriously injured Razelle Botha and her father, Professor Willem Botha, on Tuesday.

Razelle, who is in Pretoria East Hospital's intensive care unit, was wounded in the spine by two gunmen who broke into her family's Moreleta Park home last week.

While Razelle, whose ambition had been to study to become a doctor to help her fellow citizens, has regained some sensory feeling in her legs, the bullet caused extensive damage to the nerves controlling movement. It is feared that she may at best regain only about 30 percent movement in her legs.

It is the capital city mind you....
I wish the criminals would rather attack each other.

 

[Piepalook]

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It is the capital city mind you....
I wish the criminals would rather attack each other.

I doubt if that would happen....
We are too eazy targets.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I wish the criminals would rather attack each other.

Same wish here.

 

[AutoX]

This might be the reason : specialised police task teams

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=2539&cat=500

 

[Luf]

this is ****.. At least the police are attempting to do something about. Hope they catch every last bugger out there!

 

[Gooku]

'Violent crime is so high in the eastern and northern suburbs of Pretoria that specialised police task teams have been established specifically to deal with thugs terrorising those areas.

This was revealed by Tshwane executive mayor, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, during a visit to seriously injured Razelle Botha and her father, Professor Willem Botha, on Tuesday.'

Specialised task team is a very good move , (armed )house robberies (Tshwane) amount to around +- 1500 cases last year, bad news is (IMO) they are often perpetrated by experienced serial raiders , the good news is ,if the task team start to make arrests, number of new cases could come down very quickly (those thugs each of them or group committed many cases).

 

[Moederloos]

this is ****.. At least the police are attempting to do something about. Hope they catch every last bugger out there!

Are they?
Or is it simply a case of the guavamint trying to keep a lid on an explosive situation in an attempt to rescue 2010?

 

[AutoX]

Are they?
Or is it simply a case of the guavamint trying to keep a lid on an explosive situation in an attempt to rescue 2010?

I do agree with you!!

 

[frozt01100101]

I doubt if that would happen....
We are too eazy targets.

Then people should start fighting back. Not being targets. First step to stopping I'd guess at the least 20% of these problems.

 

[The Cosmos]

these ridiculous gun laws which is part of our freedom, are just another way of getting it out of our hands, and ironically it's in the hands of the criminals.

 

[Gooku]

Then people should start fighting back. Not being targets. First step to stopping I'd guess at the least 20% of these problems.

House robberies often involve a hostage situation dilemma, fighting back is not the best counter measure, activating the sounding alarm is still the better way , the imminent arrival of security and police will deter the robbers from a long stay at least if they dont flee immediately.

 

[TKD01]

I don't believe a word this "mayor" says... she ALWAYS has to throw in a lie "crime is going down" - why do you need to establish a specialised team when "crime is going down"??

She has the same "level of intelligence and competence" as our beloved Manto and more recently Sonjica (minister of Energy)...

 

[marine1]

GVT getting rid of the whites !!