{
  "id": 10220737,
  "title": "Ramaphosa orders security forces to curb violent crime",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/ramaphosa-orders-security-forces-to-curb-violent-crime",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-27T13:26:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SABC News",
    "slug": "sabc-news",
    "url": "https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-orders-security-forces-to-curb-violent-crime/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed law enforcement agencies to operate around the clock in an effort to reduce criminal activity levels in the country. This response followed a string of mass shootings, with eleven deaths in KwaZulu-Natal last week, ten killed and eleven wounded in Lwandle, Cape Town early Sunday, and seventeen fatalities in Carletonville, west of Johannesburg on Saturday night.\n\nRamaphosa emphasized that the government must significantly reduce criminality and lawlessness immediately, stating that the current level of violence is intolerable. He assured the public that the security forces are intensifying their efforts to combat violent crime, leveraging technology to identify suspects involved in recent attacks. The ANC President condemned the recent shootings and called for an end to gender-based violence.",
  "summary": "President Ramaphosa has ordered law enforcement to curb crime.",
  "key_points": [
    "President Cyril Ramaphosa orders security forces to curb violent crime.",
    "Eleven deaths in KwaZulu-Natal, ten wounded in Lwandle, and seventeen fatalities in Carletonville.",
    "Government to significantly reduce criminality and lawlessness immediately."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}