ActionSA calls for the immediate release of the outstanding quarterly crime statistics [SOUND]

# ActionSA has expressed concern over the ongoing delay in the release of the crime statistics for the first quarter of the 2025/2026 financial year. The figures were due at the end of August. ActionSA’s Dereleen James says this latest failure comes amid deepening turmoil within the Police Ministry, marked by uncertainty over the acting minister’s authority, a leadership vacuum at the top of SAPS, and ongoing investigations by the Ad Hoc Committee into governance failures within the ministry: