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The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener · 3 June 2026 · 6m
Speaker 1: Well, with all this attention on the police, in what you've seen coming out of Speaker 1: the Midlunga Commission, the ad Hoc Committee as well in Parliament, a surprise in the Speaker 1: well, surprise for some people, I suppose, in the release of crime stats showing that Speaker 1: murders in South Africa dropped a remarkable nine point five percent from first of January Speaker 1: to the thirty first of March twenty twenty six, So there were five hundred and Speaker 1: forty six few murders and we're recorded during the same period the year before. Now Speaker 1: Gareth knew Him, who is a policing expert also an advisor to the Acting Police Speaker 1: Minister, has been explaining why this is the case. Gareth, good afternoon to you, Thanks Speaker 1: very much for your Time's the minister surprised by this number. Were you surprised by Speaker 1: this number? And as you say in your article, it's quite complex, quite nuanced about Speaker 1: why murders are coming down in South Africa. Speaker 2: Good afternoon man to everybody listening. No, we weren't surprised because this trend actually started Speaker 2: two years ago, so we started to see murders dropping in this core ten twenty Speaker 2: twenty four already and that we thought initially there was a sort of a stabilization, Speaker 2: so we saw big increases after COVID, and literally in two years the murders went Speaker 2: up over thirty seven percent, which is also extraordinarily high over two year period, and Speaker 2: then sort of stabilized or tape it off, didn't just kind of didn't go up Speaker 2: anymore in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, and then we started to see the Speaker…
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