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South Africa is bleeding to death – and it's because of guns

Summary by CapeTown ETC
Words: Claire Taylor and Dean Peacock / GroundUp Every day in South Africa, 30 people are shot dead. Another 43 are shot and survive. That is more than one person shot every 20 minutes, around the clock, every single day of the year. Those numbers are staggering, but they don’t begin to convey the cascade of harm that extends beyond the bodies that take the bullets. Consider this experience of Professor Sithombo Maqungo, head of orthopaedic trau…
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CapeTown ETC broke the news in on Sunday, March 15, 2026.
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