The ruling ANC is expected to lose its majority in a May 29 election due to rising crime rates
JOHANNESBURG – In the South Africa n township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was so brilliant at soccer that he rose to be a professional player at South Africa 's top club.
Voter frustration over the government's inability to curb rising crime rates is one of the reasons the ruling African National Congress is expected to lose its majority in a May 29 election, after 30 years in power. He said Luke was a sociable child, whose mother earned the nickname "Magic Mom" for feeding all the friends he brought home for dinner.
When he heard about the shooting, he had already moved to Johannesburg. His reaction to the news was to vow to do even better so he could be an inspiration to his friends back home, his father said.At 45 per 100,000 people in 2022/23, South Africa's murder rate was the highest in 20 years, police figures show, roughly equivalent to Ecuador's and higher than that of Honduras, a country plagued by extreme gang violence.
The state's approach, largely focused on recruiting more police, has changed little since the 1990s, said David Bruce, a consultant on policing for the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies.The ANC's election manifesto says it will modernise policing, develop capabilities to combat cybercrime and gang violence, and implement a data-driven approach, among other measures.
"There's the general belief that you can get away with murdering somebody and you're never going to get caught."
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