JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- South African President Jacob Zuma's email inbox has been flooded with letters from people complaining about crime.

South Africa has a high crime rate. With 0.496008 murders per 1, 000 people. It is second only to Columbia in terms of murder rate. It has the world's highest incidence of rape, with 1.19538 per 1, 000 people, according to the website NationMaster.com.

The email letter blitz on Zuma was organized by South African union Solidarity. It resulted in Zuma receiving a letter in his inbox every six seconds on Monday morning.

Solidarity union's deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said by 10 am at least 7000 anti-crime letters had landed in Zuma's email over the previous 18 hours, and thousands more were expected before Tuesday. Thousands of members of the South African public were signing on to the website www.dearpresident.co.za where an open letter to Zuma was published. It states: "Dear Mr. Zuma... we looked forward to your state-of- the-nation address with great anticipation. We were especially anxious to hear what you have to say about crime.... "Only two percent of your speech or 115 of your 4411 words were devoted to crime. In other words, in a speech that lasted almost an hour, one minute was spent on crime. "You spent more time, or 132 words, welcoming guests of honor than talking about what you plan to do about crime." The letter urges Zuma to use his address to Parliament on Tuesday, when he replies to the debate on his state of the nation speech, to tell South Africa how his government planned to deal with high crime levels. The South African Press Association reported that this action comes after the Solidarity movement published a survey among its members, in which 73 percent said that crime is their single biggest concern. "If crime is such a priority for Solidarity members, then it can be assumed that the broad Afrikaans and South African communities feel the same way about it," said Hermann.