{"id":10484,"date":"2013-09-19T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2013-09-19T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:33:40","slug":"south-africas-murder-rate-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10484","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s murder rate increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1374\" alt=\"knife_murder\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The number of murders in South Africa increased by 0.6 percent over the past financial year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the release of the 2012\/13 crime statistics in Pretoria, he said the murder rate had previously decreased by 16.6 percent over the past four years, and by 27.2 percent over the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Since 1994, we have been making steady progress in the fight against crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will work double hard to ensure this slight increase is re-routed to the downward trends that we experienced over the past nine years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was also a 6.5 percent increase in attempted murder in the financial year under review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was in contrast to the decrease in attempted murder by 16.8 percent over the past four years and 51.7 percent over the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mthethwa highlighted the causes for the increases by province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These included cases of domestic violence and alcohol-related arguments near taverns in the Eastern Cape and labour unrest in the mining sector in the North West. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of murders in South Africa increased by 0.6 percent over the past financial year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday. Speaking at the release of the 2012\/13 crime statistics in Pretoria, he said the murder rate had previously decreased by 16.6 percent over the past four years, and by 27.2 percent over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s murder rate increases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,40,553,6365],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-nathi-mthethwa","tag-statistics"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10485,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions\/10485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}