Lauded constitution flawed

There have been so many massacres in the Eastern Cape alone that the country is getting massacre-weary. People are making mental comparisons of numbers to decide if the latest one is worth their attention.

- Sydney Majoko

The country has already been through an incident in which 18 family members were snuffed out in one attack so the shock element has tragically been reduced to a 30-second "Oh, that's terrible! At least only five people died." This did not happen by accident, it has taken decades of conditioning to get here - a murder rate that is not far from that of a country at war. Official crime statistics show that towards the end of 2023, the country lost 85 people to murder every single day.