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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Organizers expect hundreds of thousands of people to converge on central Pretoria Tuesday as a part of the country's so-called Million Man March against crime.
March organizers hope to deliver their grievances to Thabo Mbeki.
"We, as ordinary citizens, are part of the solution," said Desmond Dube, event organizer. "But we also need to get a commitment from our leaders, and that commitment comes with prioritizing the issue of crime in the country."
Dube hopes a petition protesting the country's high crime rate and calling for something to be done about it will be received by either President Thabo Mbeki or a deputy.
South Africa has been wracked with violence partially stemming from chronically high unemployment and resentment of a massive influx of immigrants and refugees from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The CIA's World Factbook putsSouth Africa's unemployment rate at 25 percent.
Inadequate housing, a lack of running water and electricity, the rising price of food, and escalating crime -- nearly 20,000 people were slain in South Africa last year -- are additional factors in the violence.
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