A single murder in our country is one too many and South Africa should stand together in the fight against crime, irrespective of who the victims and perpetrators are. It cannot be that organizations such as AfriForum jump out of their seats in defence of convicted murderers just because their victim is black. Seeing crime in colour and as a distinctly Black against White phenomenon or vice versa, will continue to feed into stereotypes that seek to roll back the democratic breakthrough for which men and women laid their lives