Crime and Punishment in South Africa - BBC Africa Eye documentary

As South Africa’s murder rate reaches a twenty year high, #BBCAfricaEye meets the frontline communities who are fighting back.
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There were more than 27,000 murders last year. With trust in the police falling, Africa Eye reporter Ayanda Charlie follows two volunteer patrol units determined to protect their communities.
She meets a team of Afrikaans farmers in the town of Brits near Pretoria - and also with a unit in Diepsloot, a township of more than 300,000 people.
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Filmed & directed by NICK BLAKEMORE
Africa Eye Editor - TOM WATSON
Reporter - AYANDA CHARLIE
Executive Producer - PETER MURIMI
Producers - JANE THANDI LIPMAN, GOLDEN LIEFIE MTIKA
Film Editor - AMANDA GUNN
Production Manager - SIMON FROST
Production Coordinator - SARAH CLARKE
Researcher - IZZY FLEMING
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Social Media Producer - ANUSHA KUMAR
Digital Producer - TAMASIN FORD
Sound mix - JEZ SPENCER
Colourist - BOYD NAGLE
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Translator - FEZOKUHLE MTHONTI, TARRYN DE KOCK
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[@Mudaucreatives95]

This documentary is shit they don't hijack cars in diepsloot

[@TatendaKavu]

ANC is obsessed with what is happening in Gaza and yet they are failing to clean the mess in their backyard, what a stunning irony.

[@greenegreene8644]

How is that got to do with the other? It's like saying "why is the U.S condemning Russia and busy giving arms to Ukraine while they have issues with mass shooting".🤦🏿‍♂️

[@mario2849]

The commies world wide have their marching orders. You surprised?

[@robertmaybeth3434]

It's a common tactic in countries with bad, corrupt, or just plain evil government in charge. Try and get your own people distracted from the leader's incompetence by pointing it out in other nations. And 100% of the time it never works.

[@user-nj4ny8ye6r]

❤️

[@Jabulanification]

@@robertmaybeth3434 VERY TRUE SIR . "in countries with bad, corrupt, or just plain evil government in charge" like the USA. GB, FRANCE, UAE , ISRAEL etc - very true indeed

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

ANC said they would destroy apartheid and transform South Africa. They transformed apartheid and destroyed South Africa

[@dagmard6783]

Spot on 👏

[@visiow2691]

You sound racist af

[@dudebro3250]

Israel told them that Apartheid was necessary. They didn't listen. The country has gotten worse every year since it ended.

[@NittyLittyNiturzion]

@@dudebro3250 i hope that this is a joke. the murder rate halved between 1994 and 2009. you can't base how "good" the country was on what it was like for the white minority while ignoring what the country was like for the black majority during apartheid

[@johnnynobody4441]

ANC one of the most racist, corrupt and wicked governments in my lifetime along with Pol Pots regime

[@tiyanishongwe187]

I'm 26 years old. 2 of my friends have been shot during hijackings. 1 passed and the other lucky survived after having being shot 4 times. I am currently living in Korea and I have to say, as much as I love home, I am never going back. People don't understand the physiological stress of living in an environment like South Africa. It's only after you've left where you start to realize that it's not normal.

[@daviddasilva8383]

I had the same experience. It's taken me a long time to adjust to normal living overseas. I still can't understand kids walking on the street at night playing on their phones

[@12345andrews]

Preach. It's the constant fight or flight for me.

[@thokomalangcobo1824]

Korea is safe?

[@Ptmjeager]

how did you find yourself there did you take the teaching english route like most south africans?

[@inocentia406]

I am so sorry you had to go through that,I was also shocked when I moved to the UK (Northern Ireland)and i saw people taking walks around midnight on their phones with no stress.police are also respected here,how I wish we could have that in South Africa😢

[@cheezykbsa5148]

Imagine if we could have a police minister as devoted as these volunteers. Just imagine.

[@biersingh3291]

Every province should have it's own.minister of crime n he must answer in parliament on how his province is doing controlling crime .Cele is just jumping from one crises to another without solving a single one

[@groMMit1981]

They'd get bribed and or threatened enough to not be so devoted, else assassinated, or more like fired from the role by ANC ministers and other higher ups who don't want to go to jail for being involved in organized crime.

[@paulg3012]

Imagine if the colonizers had stayed in Europe.

[@anthonybaiocchi3028]

​@@paulg3012Imagine if Shaka stayed at home - uyabona?

[@AliMozafari-wm9zw]

​@@paulg3012 God bless Malema... Free south Africa from White Christian Colonizers

[@Hugo-vz3eu]

My respects to the man who gave his life protecting his family. That is the whole meaning of life, to protect your legacy with everything you got. Respect.

[@jn8922]

I can't even watch this as a South African. The anger and anxiety this triggers is too much. We are hostages here... We don't leave our houses. In my town, even on a Friday night, everything closes before 10pm because it's just too dangerous to stay open. Winter is coming and that is stressful because that's when the house breaking occurs. We can't even be outside in our own yards anymore without being paranoid. And when they rob your house, they don't just want to steal - they want to rape, brutalize and torture. Sometimes I feel like I live in hell. And BBC you should do a documentary on how rampant child abuse, trafficking and rape is...that too is another reason I think this country is hell. It's too demonic what's happening here.

[@danzolion8758]

It sure is buddy I wish you all the best 👍

[@wwondertwin]

What do you think the rest of the world can do to help?

[@danzolion8758]

@wwondertwin the world's idea of helping was to slap sanctions on Apartheid and usher in the ANC. As far as the world is concerned its South Africa's problem, and they will need to sort it out. Unless we can dispatch some refugees and make it the world's problem they don't give a fck unfortunately.

[@lcx7252]

I almost got hijacked in pretoria west yesterday, a white vw tiguan and a white 4 door ford van full of men. By god's luck i made a getaway before they could do anything, they followed me until i got to where i live where there is security. I was scared but im thankful, ANC needs to go

[@kellymurphy6642]

My goodness be safe. 🙏

[@mudooladaniel1303]

When ANC g9es it will be worse

[@edjohn4590]

I was in an attempted hijacking in 2006 in Pretoria… so glad I left that hell hole of a cuntry..

[@giftpwanyes3596]

​@@mudooladaniel1303ANC is holding black south Africans lives because DA whites they really need to take SA to be there's

[@HugeStirz]

how the hell are you still living there? death wish?

[@sizwez]

I'm begging you guys, let's vote out the ANC please

[@user-kp4su9co7l]

This is democracy you vote your own party, I vote ANC.

[@whyismyricewet1986]

​@@user-kp4su9co7lwhy? It's soooo fucking corrupt. Doesn't it make sense that if a party is in power for 30 years it tends to become extremely corrupt? Maybe it's time for a new party

[@52198]

Mnqundu wakho msunukanyoko awuboni ilizwe liyatshabalala

[@Expat_from_zaLand]

No let's keep them, prove that there is such a thing as a failed state

[@user-kp4su9co7l]

@@52198 Unyoko owabambisa your so called Father iibhantshi ngobufebe bakhe.

[@MYU214]

Ramaphosa is such a spineless coward of a president

[@user-jl7oc5ps3c]

its not his fault

[@arlenespencer5850]

​@@user-jl7oc5ps3c😂😂😂😂😂

[@neobafana6043]

But he can do something about it

[@xshrmartii7711]

He has alot of control. I don't think you understand what a president jobs is ​@@user-jl7oc5ps3c

[@siyamthandandaliso4736]

Such a spineless human being. I totally agree.

[@daniebalelo926]

A close friend was murdered five years ago. Until today not one phone call to tell us of any progress made. The detective told us from the beginning that finding them would be near impossible and that he alone had more than a hundred murder cases he himself was working on. That is the reality of South Africa.

[@mikejohnson3601]

This is a war with blacks against whites

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

Daaammmm!!!!!😮

[@veronicperemore3288]

When you deal with the government you need to apply pressure on them. They will just treat your case as a number toll that case is declared a coldcase. Demand justice demand answers. Go to them until they give you answers so they start prioritising your case.

[@misskay8131]

So sad, they will only focus on cases that are high profile like AKA or viral like the Sasko employees. Those cases should definitely be solved too, but we also need cases to be solved for everyday South Africans.

[@Will-bT_3]

A country so beautiful and yet in crisis, it breaks my heart as a South African.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

Yeah, time to hit the bricks yet? Unless you're already residing elsewhere, I'd start filing immigration papers right now if I were you! I'm an American, you should probably be one too - there is far more opportunity here than there. And you do realize as bad as things are, they will get worse, and nothing will ever improve there, don't you? And you also know the reason why the problems are impossible to truly fix.

[@Mathilda5xp]

@@robertmaybeth3434 So strange that you have forgotten how racist certain States of America used to be. People with black skins were treated worse than animals! But then it 'CHANGED', and those people were treated equal. So, what makes you think that there could not be a 'CHANGE OF GOVERMENT' in South Africa too? God is a God of justice! He is in control!

[@zulu9357]

Beautiful in whose eyes?

[@collinyiga]

So beautiful...was amazed by its beauty on my first visit. Then some of its citizens don't realize the gem they have. Others are so entitled.

[@BreeWanjiru-lu3lx]

I'm so so proud of the journalist. This was balanced, despite the difficult undertones and the dangerous work.

[@Pamela-ek9cp]

No punishment in South Africa criminal are walking freely

[@nicoleostacchini1233]

THE CRIMINALS ARE WALKING FREE IN THE WHITEHOUSE, THE KNESSET AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 😂👍

[@shaunm8692]

@@nicoleostacchini1233 When did the people you mention freely rape, murder and violently assault members of the public in their countries ?

[@miriammmamoitoisehloho3055]

I'm sorry for your loss, I lock the buglar door behind me every time I come from the outside and people don't understand but we were attacked in 2018 but I'm still traumatized any sound I'm up to check doors and windows

[@sibongisenikhumalo8198]

​@@miriammmamoitoisehloho3055you are clearly choosing to live that life now. Let go

[@user-eb7wv5wt3j]

@@nicoleostacchini1233The Parliament in England is/are not called the WHITEHOUSE and COMMONS are in ENGLAND, So wtf are you even saying ?

[@cassiemhalliday770]

Living in SA is like playing Russian Roulette with someone else holding the pistol. This country belongs to and is ruled by criminals, not the tax payer.

[@Nacifra7]

Looks can be deceiving,there are not if as many ,more good folk out here ... just shapa sho-left

[@ostracizedMF]

criminals of all kinds, white-collar criminals, parliamentary criminals, and street criminals

[@user-jl7oc5ps3c]

you're just sensationalizing it, it's not that deep

[@faa9261]

Shut up racist

[@berniceglover5811]

😢 Same here in america

[@katlehomofokeng8024]

Welcome to South Africa, where political parties are more concerned about naming and shaming each other than delivering services to the public.

[@shey1146]

I am praying and hoping South Africa has a breakthrough, the people do not deserve this

[@carmialeroux7923]

They should stop voting cANCer.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

What kind of "breakthrough" are you talking about, economically, politically, social? The problems South Africa has are all self-inflicted. So that's why things never get better in such a nation unless a foreign nation comes along and literally FORCES the change at gun-point!

[@peacefulheart1431]

ANC is deadly for South Africa

[@Adam-kj2lh]

A real cancer for the country, I just can't understand how is it possible that the South African people can still vote for them 😢😢

[@sheilladunn9424]

But watch them vote for the ANC again...

[@kazRivers2]

I dont believe anything the lying western devil media says about south africa ..

[@Septumsempra8818]

​@@sheilladunn9424 "them" implies that they are different. Maybe you don't get why "they" choose the ANC. Maybe DA is not an alternative

[@mandarkastronomonov2962]

@@Septumsempra8818Has DA ever been given a chance?

[@Bluecollarjoe6B9]

South Africans should take the ANC to the ICC.

[@user-lo5tr1zj8u]

Sober minded statement. If only the masses can wake up

[@pamelatire8386]

They are still going to vote ANC. It baffles me how many South Africans think and they will continue complaining about service delivery

[@nkomazipodcast8369]

People been dying before the Anc took power how many black people has the apartheid government has killed 😢😢

[@OmarSaho-hi3ni]

On point ​@@nkomazipodcast8369

[@englishmenintown8622]

​@@pamelatire8386it's simple.... They stupid.

[@romario2166]

I was part of our volunteer protection unit in DBN during the 2021 riots. We did a far better job protecting our homes than the police. So are these people. It's sad when civilians now have to be their own police because this government is not interested in the safety of its people. The ANC thrives in this crime ridden climate. They created it. We all know what to do on the 29th people. VOTE THE ANC OUT PLEASE!

[@mariakoutromanos262]

As a South African this makes me so sad and angry. This man that was murdered left behind his wife and children totally grief stricken and for what exactly . Life is cheap here the sad thing is that we have become accustomed to being aware of even your own shadow. Killed for your car a policeman ? Seriously they fight to keep us safe and are targeted by criminals. So very heartbreaking to watch this which is our reality. Well done Ayanda.

[@user-nj4ny8ye6r]

The criminals have môre rights than law abideders in SA , crime went up 1000% the day the goverment of SA took the death penalty away

[@zainday7173]

ANC shits abolished the death penalty....

[@williamomondi5800]

Terrible I tell you. You are on your own. Human rights seem to matter more than human lives.

[@BLOODBEARD96]

So what happens if an innocent man is sentenced to death?? dangerous penalty if incompetent people are in charge..would be great and all but not with these clowns at the helm

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Afriforum does not campaign on behalf of Afrikaners in particular. They are there to help all South Africans.

[@ncubesays]

According to Afriforum on its website, it "was created to call up Afrikaners to participate in public debate and actions outside of the sphere of party politics."

[@saneleeugenengcobo9095]

But they highlight too much on white genocide

[@user-qb1py7hn2t]

My late husband (South African) and I (Singaporean) left the country in 2012 after world cup soccer thinking and hoping South Africa's crime rate and living conditions there would be improved. Unfortunately it's not so. South Africa is a beautiful country. Me coming from S'pore one of the safest countries in the world is sad that nothing has changed over the years since we left. We left because of the crimes and a few of our friends got murdered and shot. I hope and pray the country will have a better future and be safe for all South Africans. 😞❤🇸🇬

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

True. 🙏

[@ngonivere8738]

😢

[@Mathilda5xp]

Not the entire country has a high crime rate! Have you ever been to Elgin, Griekwastad, and many other small towns outside the cities of South Africa? You should go and visit there. I can promise you that the people in those small towns, live a good crime free life!

[@toplyf.]

After struggling for freedom they did nothing with it.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

Lady the only thing I will predict is, if you take a look at how South Africa is today in 2024, it will look exactly the same in 2074, because leadership that is as bad as SA's never advances the culture or the nation. When leadership is too busy stealing from their own people, whilst spending the rest of their time figuring out ways to steal even more, the chances of corrupt leaders diverting any money or resources to building up their own nation is ZERO. So take a good look at SA today in 2024, take a picture, emblazon in your mind's eye, the South Africa of today. Because right now is the best it is ever going to get.

[@CarlMiller-ql2wz]

What happened to south africa? 20 30 years ago it was a beautiful tourist destination. Now i wouldnt even think about going there.

[@jacquesotto1289]

The ANC became obsessed with self gained wealth that they forgot and lost compassion for its people. Its obsessed with creating divition to cling to power. The leaders are thiefs themself. Counsilers and murdered for positions.

[@dudebro3250]

They didn't listen to Israel is what happened. Israel told them that Apartheid was for the betterment of South Africa. Yet they believed lying politicians as well as lying media that it was in their best interests to end it.

[@ot7302]

South African people deserve better, those who say it's not bad are in denial.

[@thomastuffin6171]

It's pretty safe for tourists. It's just the locals that bear the brunt of crime.

[@Sonniemhlongo]

What is happening in South Africa is what is happening around the world

[@maryannklein2235]

I admire and respect the volunteers getting out there doing their best to protect their communities. The state of the country is critical. Vote wisely.

[@EthioRich-lm4og]

may God Please Protect And Bless South Africa; I;m ethiopian hear my prayer my Lord.

[@mobalance4736]

This ANC government has done this to our country

[@MrRobertzingela]

Apartheid is the key reason behind the large inequalities in South Africa. Inadequate responses to the conditions it created has further prolonged the poverty and inequalities. Remember white South Africans paid no reparations after '94, state intervention in the African communities has primarily been through welfare and basic services. The white economy was never restructured, only privatized.

[@paulrowe9486]

@@MrRobertzingela After WWII Germany was destroyed ! But housewives picked up bricks and cleaned them and a British Army Engineer got VW re started ! In THREE YEARS they were back in business ! IT IS THIRTY YEARS SINCE 1994 !!!!! You cannot blame Apartheid after THIRTY YEARS ??? They have not built ANYTHING in 30 years !!! NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Crusader47]

@@MrRobertzingela incorrect brother south africa was looking good when Mandela was in power when he left power it was the beginning of the end. F the ANC

[@alainbelanger9852]

I’m not sure that South Africa was “looking good” for non-whites. As bad as the ANC is, at least there’s a black middle and upper class now, rather than being pretty much exclusively white.

[@jn8922]

​@@MrRobertzingelaNo. When there was apartheid, there was still cultural values. Behaving like this is not part of the African culture. This violence and brutality is not because of apartheid. Most people in South Africa haven't experienced apartheid. We have a young population. You can't blame the white man for everything. We have a young population. The children born when apartheid ended are now 30 years ago. They don't know apartheid at all. Single mothers and drinking and drugs came after apartheid. It's not poverty driving this. People were poor during apartheid but they weren't so brutal. And everyone forgets the political violence before the first election in 1994. The ANC and IFP were killing each other left right and centre fighting for power. That wasn't inequality and that wasn't because of apartheid. Blaming everything on apartheid is not working anymore.

[@thegratenjambinimurungah1219]

Ingrid's story is heartbreaking. So sorry for your loss. May God judge the matter on you and your daughter's behalf

[@alexxx7066]

This is the result of having a VERY corrupt government 😂😂😂

[@isaymymind1727]

Add illiteracy to that then you get the real SA and its future....Zimbabwe

[@FreshtexBlackman]

No it's a result of years of Apartheid, white Afrikaans brought about all of this by squeezing black people and taking all the countries resources for themselves

[@FreshtexBlackman]

No this the result of Apartheid

[@TheMuslimGoku]

This is the result of decades of oppression of a people. Yes the government is corrupt but what polotician isn't. Governments around the world are corrupt. This is a result of apartheid.

[@GMakgathoSA]

Government have been corrupt since National Party.

[@melanieknowles7002]

You voted for the ANC over and over again... got what you voted for......29 May......game on. The world will be watching.

[@vre7474]

Yet you voted NP for 4 decades

[@witwolf4641]

and yet there was no crime@@vre7474

[@swartkat3472]

That's an assumption , you can argue many things actually worked during apartheid so at least you got something..the fact is its 2024 and people are still voting for ANC while the run the country into the drain

[@willemdelange1191]

@@vre7474 this does not make his argument wrong. ANC has ruled for 30 years and the country has gone down the gutter. Clear as day in this video and everyday news

[@aviweyantolo5023]

@@swartkat3472 no you liar it worked for the minority not us ! Half of the black population didnt even have electricity during your nazi reign

[@markmcculloch2570]

As a South African. This is the reality here. Hope elections can take the criminal power away from the anc government so that we can heal this beautiful country.

[@isaymymind1727]

Nay. ELections are a ticket for the next black gang to plunder the country. No indegenous will properly run any country in Africa. Keep dreaming

[@thegreencouchshow4029]

Y’all need to take your government to the ICC. They can put the energy deployed for Palestine to solve the crime issue in the country.

[@user-bu3nb4ck7s]

​@@thegreencouchshow4029 South Africa took them to the ICJ not ICC and they were right to. Israel is openly genocidal .

[@arlenespencer5850]

You get what YOU voted for. RIP SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦

[@cara-leighchalmers8170]

The country is in absolute shambles thanks to the ANC.

[@nicanicolae1049]

I moved to SA since 2010 , things got to worse , im looking to relocate for my safety

[@clintonroper007]

The ANC has got blood on their hands

[@Zanele242]

South Africa is a ticking time bomb all thanks to the ANC!!

[@abrahamsneo7783]

Welcome to South Africa..

[@arlenespencer5850]

The NEW SA. founded in 1994. Destroyed a country with smiles on their faces. Makes one think.

[@KAKAROT12374]

​@@arlenespencer5850smiles on the faces of the yt people Blck people were and still are sad

[@WaLatifah]

South Africa is just like Haiti no difference.

[@alim3611]

well said ..its a scary place

[@john-darrenesterhuizen9008]

Oh shut up Haiti is war zone especially the capital

[@janewhite572]

Cry! 😢 My beloved country.

[@Ace-SK]

I attempted to walk the streets of "Jozi" in April, and i came to learn what a big mistake, i had to run for my life. I got lucky to meet a patrol vehicle. Cabs can't get to certain areas it tells you how dangerous it's.

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

"I attempted to walk..." U know how ridiculous that sound coming from a grown man/woman ...ppl walk the streets of Jozi all the time a few are unlucky 🙄 go outside man

[@BigBZzzzzzz]

Exactly. Live. But stay strapped. If you're food you're food. Fucked up but that's reality​@@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271

[@luyandachamane2093]

Now imagine trying to do that in San Francisco….

[@Beingteachablewithkim]

Which parts of Jozi? Every city has areas that are no go hot spots. I got mugged of my mobile phone at night walking near London Bridge in the heart of the city at night. You do need to apply some level of common sense when travelling especially if you are a foreigner

[@kobusvanstaden3747]

Post 29 May, I'm out. Goodbye to the broken, criminal mess. I'm not paying for this anymore

[@ConsciousCaracal]

When a government does not fulfil its duty to protect citizens, it makes the emergence of resilient, community-based safety structures, such as the AfriForum neighbourhood watches, inevitable and necessary.

[@tokoloshi214]

People devour themselves because of incompetent leadership. People can vote for the ANC for years... the outcome will remain the same.

[@FreshtexBlackman]

If you ignore all the years of Apartheid then maybe you'll have a valid point.

[@witwolf4641]

yes,always someone else neh.@@FreshtexBlackman

[@willemdelange1191]

@@FreshtexBlackman is always someone else fault hey?

[@phumudzon1853]

Can't blame the government for everything because there are people that found their way to get out of poverty

[@milesbrown8016]

Blaming apartheid for all the problems is the pröblem. 30 years on . Keep blaming other people for your problems is a weakness and sickness. Germany and Japan were bombed flat in the Second World War. After 15 years they were up and running. And still are. Go look in the mirror to see the problem

[@maybinmukalamba9906]

Funny how this was supposed to be the best and most successful country in Africa ..what a shame

But they have the gaul to take Israel to ICC but cant look after their own people

[@mechailreydon3784]

To be fair the bar in Africa is pretty low..

[@nomdeguerre247]

Pro genocide is a bad look

[@positivevibesonly3371]

Hasbara bots still mad

[@martinretail6718]

We thought America was the best but they have slums too. Wake up!

[@CaseyWiggin]

Thanks to these volunteers for doing what you are doing for our country

[@thabsmthethwa]

Wow our country is going down. Great work the patrollers are doing in Diepsloot, I gather ,most of the volunteers are unemployed. Local Govt. should provide training and stipends for their time in safeguarding the community. Great documentary and balanced viewpoint.

[@kennyomoism]

May South Africa find peace,,,they are one of the best people i have lived with,,I left after three years because of the crime rate,,

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

😂😂

[@peterc8979]

Wish you all the best

[@Justinkemp20022]

This is an unbiased piece on the scourge of crime in our country. Very sad.

[@user-lo7nt1ft7u]

Crime, safety, and security is just one of the adversities we face. Infrastructure, employment, education, rising cost of living, ... and now with the NHI bill signed we will soon add health care to that list. I applaud the South Africans trying to make a difference in their community.

[@CharlizeCloete-uy3vg]

This woman asking the guy what right he has to search a person's at that time of the night left me speechless. She does not understand how those thugs operate.

[@skhumbuzongcobo9161]

Regardless, he has no right if he not backed by SAPS as a community police forum, he is just a civilian

[@slimwalk708]

She does not understand, period.

[@niranjanrama430]

Fully agree with your comment. It seems she was alien to the reality.

[@user-kz1gj1yp8d]

😢I also feel like she is there for criminals rights....Her questioning is 😢😢😢😢too personal for us partrollers

[@phillipsidhojapap1461]

who gives civilians the right to question other civilians, their skin color? very unreasonable. To what authority are they responsible for their actions? This stupid thinking is what messed SA in the first place, Boer segregation. Go back to Europe

[@SparkBerry]

When you refuse to take responsibility for your own actions, just blame apartheid.

[@FreshtexBlackman]

When you refuse to accept the reality of what Apartheid did for all those years of subjugation and racism while making white South Africans rich and blacks living in ghettos with no proper access to well paying jobs or good schools you can make a comment like yours. I suggest you buy and read these books if you want to understand the truth "Apartheid in South Africa: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)" and "Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid"

[@mashobanevusimuzikhumalo2415]

Apartheid is the key reason behind the large inequalities in South Africa. Inadequate responses to the conditions it created has further prolonged the poverty and inequalities. Remember white South Africans paid no reparations after '94, state intervention in the African communities has primarily been through welfare and basic services. The white economy was never restructured, only privatized.

[@MrRobertzingela]

It's Crazy How Whyte people in South Africa only think that they are the only victims of Crimes..... Whereas they implemented an Apartheid System which is Largely the route cause of these Crimes...

[@isaymymind1727]

The Boer and English built schools, clothed the people, developped an economy....Yes there was some foolishness in Apartheid but damn those guys built a country. And it was offered on a silver plata to babajan. As is with the case in all African countries they ran it to the ground. And they have the audacity to blame white people. Thats full blown kak. Black people are nasty to each other, they are jealous , cruel ...name it. The irony is that they want to come out and tell the world about how ubuntu is humane and how righteous black culture is.... Absolutely can't smell the stench of their own kak. They think its roses.

[@SparkBerry]

@mashobanevusimuzikhumalo2415 So when a man decides to go into the home of his neighbour and rape and murder a child, that's OK because it's not his fault, it apartheid's? When the educated government minister steals money through tenderpreneurship, that's OK, it's not his fault, it's apartheid's. Come now, the ANC have had 30 years, and the crime rate is worse than it has ever been. Do you honestly think that if every white person up and left SA and left everything thing they have to the current regime, there would be some ANC-led Utopia? Only a fool would think that.

[@ursulaotieno6998]

Why are these thugs doing this to their fellow South Africans? Truly sad 😢

[@icetrip2417]

They are evil cowards no remorse for life at all

[@Ptmjeager]

jealousy and hunger

[@enoqq]

is this video a cry against crime or is it criticizing those who are trying to eradicate crime from their communities?🙄🙄🙄

[@dennis3753]

You're playing with your life living in these remote areas...even the suburbs are bad...our house got robbed twice through the same burglar bared window. Alarm didn't go of...dogs didn't hear anything...neighbors saw nothing...now the house looks like a prison with double bars. Estates and apartments are your best bet but even those get robbed by "neighbors"

[@wanjiruolive]

That police officer that was stabed and later died in the presence of BBC that was wicked honestly....am seeing this danger of crime is more pronounced in the townships that was crazy to see.

[@user-lo5tr1zj8u]

SAPS are not competent to deal with this crime. In fact some are in cahoots with the criminals.

[@twinkle_yara]

My country is falling apart 😭😭🇿🇦💔

[@seyijoseph3388]

Small country 😂

[@weymouthesterhuizen1145]

​@@seyijoseph3388Your point is?

[@JamesDBlanc]

Ingrid's story broke my heart 😢

[@flyman2608]

South Africa and homicide is so high. Even rape is high in the county. What's wrong with the people?

[@Tgspartnership]

unemployment is a big part of the problem no doubt

[@chawezichipeta5326]

SA is a crime scene

[@BigBZzzzzzz]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Dok2023]

It is a sad state of affairs that SA is a great coumtry that crime and inequality keeps dragging back. Inorder to achieve its potential, the subsequent givernments must deal with crime, drugs and inequality issues. I pray one day they'll defeat this menace to their society. One love SA from 🇰🇪

[@bapalorininya8128]

​@@wma5440shut up

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

What’s great about it?

[@Ptmjeager]

imagine woring hard to earn yourself things just to have your life brutally taken away from you

[@BawlzOfuzz]

Inequality? Speak to your leaders! Take responsibility for your communities!

[@markthompson4859]

The leaders talk pretty flowers for the cameras and UN members while in reality, they buy their place in parliament with a teeshirt and a KFC Streetwise 2.

[@oceanbreeze4361]

South Africa to look after her own troublesomed country instead of telling Israel what to do😬

[@marcosgarvey7129]

another genocidal supporter, you want to divert everybody 's attention from Israeli genocide against Palestinians.

[@positivevibesonly3371]

😭😭😭how have u not moved on from the fact that everyone knows that Israel is committing an act of genocide. How much sleep have u been losing over Israel being seen for what it is

[@nicholasmendoza5844]

​@positivevibesonly3371 and who was the one who fired the first shot? Do you really think that a nation would just standby and not retaliate against a terrorist state? If you want the killing to stop in gaza tell that to the terrorist who are in charge of the state not israel.

[@ayanda6862]

October 7 occurred because isreal oppressed palestianians, I hope you keep the same energy with regards to the ukrain

[@liselotte1474]

@@positivevibesonly3371 Where are the activities of SA about genozide in Dafur? Double Standards?

[@user-nj4ny8ye6r]

The criminals are in charge of SA , not the goverment , now ask yourself : WHY ?

[@ianhoyle6132]

The government are criminals one of the world's most corrupt governments.

[@charmainepriestman915]

The government are criminals

[@mawandenxumalo4901]

Government, the bloody ANC is letting it happen

[@realjedeye7208]

THE GOVERNMENT is the biggest mafia there is, they are the criminals

[@ohsure07]

Most of the ANC are criminals

[@MeYouMusic]

crime costs SA 10% of its GDP per year, corruption another 20% plus. Too many prisoners/criminals' rights and not enough victim's rights.

[@icetrip2417]

It's chaos

[@toosiie214]

We can't blame everything on the government. We live with these criminals in our neighborhoods and we do nothing

[@lindiwekubu8846]

My beautiful beloved Country is gone 😭😭😭. GONE😭😭😭😭!

[@lovedlover2667]

O nga lahli temba

[@lindiwekubu8846]

@@lovedlover2667 Ngiyabonga kodwa 🙏🏽

[@VhuthuGodzwana]

Yup. Glad I'm leaving in June, found a job in the UK

[@ndumisoduma1240]

​@@VhuthuGodzwana The UK is no safe haven, trust me. I have plenty of family there

[@VhuthuGodzwana]

@ndumisoduma1240 my brother has been living there for the past 9 years

[@fionazerbst5771]

South Africans are beautiful people dealing with decades of corruption and effective lawlessness. The vast majority of people just want jobs, food for their families, and security. No one political party can turn things around - we need more community action, coordination with effective leaders, and determination. But of course, we need political leaders who can promote economic growth and investment. Without this, things will only get worse. I ❤ my country, love to all these brave crime fighters. ❤

[@Gunships.]

sadly 93% south africans dont like working and would rather just receive grants, most south africans aren't criminals just lazy

[@AndrewMcFarlane_1]

A political party that isn't corrupt and which will appoint the best people for the positions where they must will turn the country around.

[@pamelatire8386]

Well said. 👏👏👏

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

They look like a beautiful people 🤣

[@phillipmhundwa642]

Sad. It's just so hard to be in South Africa. Death is everywhere

[@willtheartistofficial1985]

You should do a cover story on how much black farmers are suffering

[@Leesi-wi7gp]

The fact that they have two gates is crazy

[@Dewald-jg5os]

Once the land of milk and honey. Now the land of blood and dirty money.

[@ofentsemabe7532]

Milk and honey for who?

[@VhuthuGodzwana]

Milk and honey for the minority lol

[@GOAT676]

Bars 😂

[@victor1and2angelmimi]

South Africa has never been a land of milk and honey. Before independence and after independence it's same blood shed .

[@Dewald-jg5os]

@@ofentsemabe7532 for us decent folks, you lot were always killing each other

[@sheilladunn9424]

Lol what right do you have.... but theres a dead man at her feet. When you don't live in the townships you dont understand township problems.

[@mynameissbu6014]

If a mob of people beat me up for no reason, I'm becoming a vigilante.

[@ikemeebuka4865]

Felt bad for that one guy who was falsely accused

[@sampsonnti]

The amount of lawlessness in this country is beyond me... Ghana much better to live in

[@blueberryhill6948]

This is why we left South Africa 😭😭😭😭 The pain is unbearable

[@steven320]

​@@leocardiamaruta4208😂😂😂who would go back to that zoo.

[@mkodyChallengesYOu]

@@steven320 the broke boers want to beg to belong 😂 Just stay out and stay away Welcome as geust and on visa

[@dephinecee8815]

​@leocardiamaruta4208 but you're from Zimbabwe.

[@isaymymind1727]

You're all lost. Its a result of black idiocy.

[@ofentsemabe7532]

Stay away, don't even comment... South Africa will be fixed, even then plz stay away

[@bernardmuyunda796]

Unfortunately Crime in SA is as normal as breathing in & out.

[@Muthonie]

I empathize but I also realize the lack of acknowledgment on their part. Everyone else is blamed foreigners, apartheid etc but truth is the criminals are known to the people.

[@TheSiyasss]

South Africans are not sick by blaming foreigners about crime go look at the stats how many foreigners commit gruesome crimes in our land on a daily basis.South Africans are as guilty as well however we cannnot be debating this no foreigner is supposed to commit a crime in land that isn’t his.

[@tebogokube9623]

Indeed we are enablers I guess it's hard to take the blame hence we blame everyone except our selves

[@WeWantEntertainment]

Well done ANC! Can’t spell cancer without ANC

[@OmarSaho-hi3ni]

LOL u are very right

[@user-sb3sn8di1s]

cancer and apartheid both share: a, e, r

[@user-sb3sn8di1s]

@@geelangfordo3272building the best police force is not what curtails crime: generational poverty and segregation which are hallmarks of apartheid (Jim Crow) which have been imposed on the majority population by the then-white minority will take a while to unwind.

[@trevorscrivens3440]

Or communism.

[@joshdun3290]

The ANC must go SA! DA is the only sane choice for real change.

[@georgegroep4736]

It is not class, it is mentality that separates it all. If you dont have money it doesn't mean your place must look like a dump site. To clean is free!!

[@bruxodomorro]

People growing up around garbage with no education, jobs and options in life, but yeah surely it must be their own fault. Its their MeNtAlITy that holds them back.

[@ramjet6677]

She says who keeps the patrollers to account, what about the S.A Justice system or the corrupt politicions ? Who keeps them to account ???

[@AlbertBormant]

This is Britain's future

[@zulu9357]

True they messed Africa up

[@NMiller80666]

Correct, the British, Dutch, etc should have stayed in Europe and not go to other parts of the world to exploit, now it's Europe's turn.

[@Tgspartnership]

always someone else's fault

[@T-mw4mu]

@@NMiller80666 Boers were at the Cape long before anyone else, apart from the bushmen (The San peoples).

[@mannidennis1031]

@@NMiller80666lol get over it

[@leonardschneider1043]

GOD told us what will happen, and still we carry on!

[@JACKBOOT12]

The diepsloot patrolers should really consider registering themselves as a non-profit that works through donations. That way, they can get the support and equipment they need.

[@alim3611]

i have never seen a more violent nation than South Africa .. i am Zimbabwean and i cannot relate ....the whole nation needs therapy from the Tshaka Zulu legacy of violence , The Boer invasion and Arpatheid atrocities

[@hotelesl232]

Good job done by the ANC Government of the past 30 years.

[@sandilemolaba_]

Documentaries like this make us remember that crime does not affect only people of a specific skin color it affects us all, whether you live in the township , suburbs or farm, we can all agree crime is a problem in this country and the anc has to be voted out

[@godfreyberry1599]

Great and extremely BALANCED documentary THANK YOU 🏆

[@FreshtexBlackman]

This doc is in no way "Balanced".

[@willemdelange1191]

@@FreshtexBlackman how not? it shows the rampant crime in SA? I was held at gunpoint with a friend last year in Nyanga.

[@thegreencouchshow4029]

As a young man growing up in Congo 🇨🇬 I’ve always looked at SA as a sort of an African success story. But it’s sad to see how this amazing country keeps plugging into chaos.

[@theladyfingers___]

"There's no evidence that farmers are at any greater risk than the average South African." No stats provided. Yeah, okay.

[@just_juice]

Mind sharing the stats?

[@ayanda6862]

They attacked because they isolated. Stop believing that white people ar3 special

[@bruxodomorro]

Stats literally support this claim but try proving something to yall racsm and apartheid apologists.

[@chusky0781]

He said it right, 1 life too many! Crime has no colour😢

[@nicholasmendoza5844]

I can't believe that this country transformed into an unstable state thanks ANC.

[@Nico-jn8ec]

You voted for Zuma and Ramaphosa and that's what you get. On 29 May change the story

[@paballo2566]

some are still willing to give Zuma a 2nd chance

[@paballo2566]

so don't blame me for voting for DA

[@phindutsabedze9235]

Thank you Ayanda

[@chocthephotographer3226]

Truth is poverty is what is causing all of this!! The gap needs to be bridged

[@kimvandenheever7834]

Cry the beloved country

[@luthandomdiya949]

Our constitution is our core problem, how many times do these guys get arrested and released? then we spend more on them than homeless people

[@vernalineurquhart1658]

So proud of the Diepsloot patrollers!