Whenever our national crime statistics are released, numbers get crunched and we’re left looking at some staggering numbers.
It’s plain to see that there’s plenty of tension between the Ozzie and SA governments at present, and this travel advice isn’t going to mend any bridges.
Private security companies are big business in this country, so let’s take a look at 2017’s crime stats from the biggest out there.
SA 2016/17 crime stats. UCT Fees Must Fall trouble looming. Republicans turn on Trump. Malema says he’s been hacked. Airbnb’s African market. Former umpire Darrell Hair is a thief. Harry Styles groped. Hunter S Thompson series.
Unfortunately this isn’t going to make for pretty reading, the latest crime stats presented to Parliament’s police portfolio committee earlier today.
Folks in the Big Apple are pretty stoked right now as the city goes on a murder-free run for the record books. Seems like fun, maybe we can hop on this train.
Well, this is bad news. The the annual crime statistics were released in Pretoria today, and revealed that the murder rate is up 0.6% this year after an annual decline since 2007. And there are loads more people trying to kill other people, but not succeeding. Attempted murder has also increased 6,5% over the past year.