http://www.moneyweb.co.za/economy/economic_trends/802910.htm
Barry Sergeant
"The news rattled across the nation this week: “a national security strategy to combat crime was at the top of the agenda of the South African cabinet’s mid-year Cabinet lekgotla held in Pretoria”. Citizens by the million will be anticipating the outcome, which could be detailed by President Thabo Mbeki at a media conference scheduled for Saturday. Violent crime hit new depths at the end of June, when the so-called Jeppestown massacre in Johannesburg claimed the lives of four policemen and eight robbers armed with heavy-calibre weapons and other deadly hardware. Beyond individual incidents, however, the scale of South Africa’s crime problem has become almost unimaginable. South Africa is technically a war zone." [Country Profiles]
