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Do NMMU students have an influence on crime on Summerstrand

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Help us out here – chatting to residents in Summerstrand they say that the crime rate increases significantly every year from the beginning of October to the end of the student year.

The majority of residents blame this increase on needy students who require funds in order to write exams or re-register for the following year.

Having a mix of elderly residents and young students forced into a desperate situation and needing money could be a potentially volatile one.

Driving down from the top of Admiralty way towards NMMU I often see students walking with liquor past scores of retirement homes and wonder if that is not a catalyst for resentment – combined that with a bit of Dutch courage from excessive drinking and we could have a really explosive action happening like the recent murder of 85 year old John Berrington in his Duncan Ferguson Park retirement village in Seventh Avenue, Summerstrand on 28 October.

John Berrington’s domestic worker found him tied up on his bed, Eastern Cape police said. His cottage had also been ransacked after he had been strangled and beaten to death.

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