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Cape Town mayor says the vast majority of illegal firearm cases never make it to trial [SOUND]

# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the vast majority of illegal firearm cases in the metro never make it to trial due to the broken criminal justice system. A SAPS media release claims conviction rates of 80-to-90-percent in illegal firearm court cases. Hill-Lewis says over four years, only five-percent of convictions were secured of the one-thousand-670 cases of illegal guns seized by city officers:

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