A TOTAL of 546 South African children were murdered in the first six months of the year, according to an Al Jazeera report.
An average of three South African children are killed each day.
In the first quarter of the year, April to June, 243 South African children were murdered, according to SAPS crime statistics.
Between October and December 2021, 352 South African children were murdered.
In the latest child killing that has rocked the nation, a 4-year-old girl, Bokgabo Poo, was kidnapped, raped and mutilated.
The suspect was out on bail for allegedly raping a 9-year-old girl.
Poo’s father, Irvin Ndlovu, 32, saw the man accused of killing his child in court this week and tried to attack him before he was held back by friends and members of…