A recent spate of tavern shootings in South Africa has brought into focus how unsafe some places are.
On average nearly one person an hour is shot dead in South Africa, experts say."Every night there are bullets. Shooting, every day," said one resident of Soweto, who asked to remain anonymous.were shot dead in a packed bar earlier this monthA group of armed men stormed in just before midnight, opened fire and then disappeared into the night.
I met grieving mother Lesley Wyngaard in Cape Town, where some communities have been besieged by gun and gang violence. "He's safe now, free from pain. No one can every hurt him again," she said tending to a vase of fresh flowers near her son's ashes. "The apartheid system itself was very violent and very brutal" which meant that both the security forces and communities were armed. "That culture of arming continued," she said.
Adele Kirsten who has been lobbying for decades for a gun-free South Africa said that if the country has any hope of reducing gun violence, a concerted effort needs to be put into reducing the number of guns in circulation.
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