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Bodies are being found beheaded, elderly women are being raped and murdered, lovers are brutally killing each other and dagga fields have turned into killing fields. Now a mafia-style public execution.


This depressing picture provides a chilling reminder of an emerging disposition of gruesome proportions that is entrenching itself within what was once a humble and peace loving nation.


The brutal killing of businessman Victor Gamedze, which shook the country to the core on Sunday afternoon, brings greater attention to the dangerous degree to which some elements within our society pose as threats to our safety and security. It also serves as a clear warning that each and every one of us, irrespective of social standing, is susceptible to crime.


We certainly deserve to be much safer given the level of financial and human resource allocation to the security forces of this country, which enjoy the second largest chunk of the national budget.


However, we still lack street surveillance in public places that could easily identify criminals, while our borders remain porous with killers literally walking in and out of the country to do as they please; as we suspect is the case in the Gamedze’s shooting, if current leads are anything to go by.

Investors have good reason to be worried about their safety, which places our jobs at risk, especially if guns continue to be in the wrong hands within our communities but we choose to turn a blind eye to the threat this poses, only to grieve when we lose a loved one.


As we mourn the loss of an influential member of society, who has made a significant contribution to business and sports particularly, we can ask for nothing less than swift action to bring all crime culprits to book and revive the waning confidence in our security personnel.


We must stem the tide of what could soon become a new crime phenomenon, following closely in the footsteps of another emerging crime of kidnapping high profile businesspeople for ransom.


This is not how we would have loved to start the year 2018 but the reality of losing national cohesion in the fight against crime, is like starring down the barrel of a gun. 


Working together to get rid of dangerous weapons, as well as criminal elements in our society, is our only option. Nobody deserves to die this way!

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