Johannesburg's Police Can't Cope With The City's Murder Rate (2001)

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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2018 · News & Politics

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Jo'Burg Homicide (2001): In South Africa, the country with the highest murder rate in the world, mobs of people sick of crime and police failures are taking ‘justice’ into their own hands.

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In the homicide unit in Baltimore USA, six detectives work on each murder. At Johannesburg Central each detective investigates between 50 and 80 murders at any given time. We follow the case of Thomas Khoza, a journalist who was brutally killed in front of several witnesses in June last year. Like most cases, the murder of Thomas Khoza is likely to remain unsolved - another tragic statistic on the streets of Jo’burg, while his killers walk free. 

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