South Africa’s daily murder toll is nearly double the number of daily civilian deaths in Ukraine. This grim statistic forms part of a sobering crime assessment by prominent academic Professor Eugene Cloete, chief executive of the Cape Higher Education Consortium. In the fourth quarter of the 2024/25 fiscal year, South Africa registered an average 64 murders a day (according to SAPS figures), a significantly higher toll than the daily average 38 civilian deaths recorded during the same period in the Ukraine.
Sam Busa