Police Minister Bheki Cele has bemoaned the prevalence of violence in South African communities, saying this phenomenon was growing to \u201cunacceptable proportions\u201d.<\/p>\n
While all cases of assault have decreased by over 9% from January and March this year, 75 000 <\/strong>cases of common assault and assault GBH cases were opened with the police during this period.<\/p>\n The Minister revealed this while releasing fourth quarter statistics of the 2020\/21 financial year.<\/p>\n Of the 2 855 <\/strong>incidents of assault GBH, Cele said it had been confirmed that alcohol was consumed either by the victim or the perpetrator or both.<\/p>\n Exactly 2 047 incidents of assault GBH took place at either a bar, a night club, a tavern or a shebeen.<\/p>\n \u201cThis doesn\u2019t exclude alcohol being present in parks, beaches and other places of entertainment.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gauteng and Western Cape provinces recorded the highest assault cases. Just over 16 520 <\/strong>incidents of assaults both common and grievous bodily harm were domestic related, which means the victim and perpetrator knew each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Cele said alcohol abuse is the \u201calbatross around one\u2019s neck\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n \u201cCommunities can no longer afford to stand aside and look; they have to be part of the crime solution, by saying no to alcohol abuse.<\/p>\n \u201cSome communities have more taverns as compared to any other establishment in their area of residence, including churches and schools combined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou simply cannot expect those communities to have social stability, due to the oversupply of liqour.\u201d<\/p>\n The Minister called on the alcohol Industry to also be part of the solution and offer social responsibility programmes in this regard. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police Minister Bheki Cele has bemoaned the prevalence of violence in South African communities, saying this phenomenon was growing to \u201cunacceptable proportions\u201d. While all cases of assault have decreased by over 9% from January and March this year, 75 000 cases of common assault and assault GBH cases were opened with the police during this period. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-188931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}