Comments on: South African Burglaries

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:55:11 +0000

Yes, the murder rate today in SA is significantly higher than it has been throughout most of South African history under Apartheid. Check this PDF out to get the true picture.

By: Space Nookie

Space Nookie — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:33:19 +0000

Yeah, how they construct this statistic is they take the murder rate from the first year of ANC rule (starting in APR 1994, which is when ANC won its first election) and compare it with the rate claimed by ANC in 2011 (66.9 vs 31.9). They leave you to infer that there was a super-high murder rate during apartheid and that the ANC rainbow government has made good consistent progress on bringing it down, but actual apartheid-era numbers are not included. Technically correct and also super misleading, they don’t tell you the whole story.

Meanwhile the middle class has moved into gated communities and now employs armed private security with response times of 2-3 minutes.

Source: Wikipedia article on crime in South Africa.

By: Derfel

Derfel — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:11:56 +0000

In the late 1980s and early 1990s South African black townships were in a de facto state of civil war between the xhosa-dominated African National Congress paramilitary gangs and the zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party.

The end of apartheid and the opening of sinecures in the civil service for members of these black parties ended this conflict, so murder rates fell down.

By: 27

27 — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:44:42 +0000

The murder rate has fallen by half since minority rule? That seems unlikely.

By: SOBL

SOBL — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:23:36 +0000

Murder rate has fallen by more than half since the end of apartheid. Hmm how much is the denominator changing a factor? The population has increased +35% since ’94.