RIP, prof. Larkin :-(

[nairiporter]

Professor Mike Larkin from the university of Cape Town is dead. He was stabbed by two robberers :-(((
I didn't know him well, but this is appalling. The whole university community is in shock.
Violent crime is getting out of control. I hardly know anyone in this country whose friends, relatives, or himself haven't been affected. This is worse than the AIDS epidemy. And the government is only pretending that they are doing something :-(


UCT professor killed for his bag in Rondebosch
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=325198

A University of Cape Town commercial law professor was stabbed to death during a robbery in Rondebosch on Friday, Western Cape police said.

Police spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana said the professor was walking down Roslyn Road between 6pm and 6.30pm on Friday evening. He was then approached by two men who tried to grab his bag.

"They threatened him with knives and demanded his bag. When he resisted the men stabbed him a number of times in the chest and fled with the bag," Sinyangana said.

Sinyangana said a murder docket had been opened.

Contact crimes
Meanwhile, police operations targeting contact crimes have resulted in the arrest of more that 30 000 people, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said last week.

"3 339 law enforcement operations focusing on contact crimes were conducted [between July and August] resulting in 30 515 arrests relating to contact crimes," he said.

Balfour, who was briefing the media on progress made by the Safety and Security, Ccorrectional Services and Justice and Constitutional Development Departments in the fight against crime, said the recent recruitment of police reservists will bolster the police's capacity to fight crime.

"This will have a major impact in assisting the police to combat crime and increase police visibility," he said.

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

The roots of the problem may lie in the fact that the local government deliberately relocated people from rural areas and other cities into the Cape Flats, for electoral purposes. But this triggered many social problems, due to poverty. So yes, I hate to say it but the government is to blame.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

The crime rate in your Johannesburg is much bigger than here in Cape Town. And the government has not relocated anyone in the Jo-burg suburbs. The problem is somewhere else.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

And the government has not relocated anyone in the Jo-burg suburbs

Huh!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbs_of_Johannesburg
Where did all those people come from?

I agree that this is not the only reasons for the problem, but is one of the main.

And it's not "My" Johannesburg :-)

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

The way you behaved tonight showed the opposite! ;-)