I mean, is the morgue half full... or, well... overflowing into the nearby alley?
-- Johannesburg SA -- It's a complicated picture, says Johan Burger, senior researcher in the crime and justice programme at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies.
The first thing is that the South African murder rate is going down and not up. "Contrary to what many people think, the murder rate, while still extremely high, is down by about 44% since 1995.
Geez, Johan... it doesn't seem all that, what's the word...
"complicated"... to me...
Oh yeah...
"In addition to these 18,000 murders each year, there are another 18,000 attempted murders."
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