{"id":1711,"date":"2012-09-20T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T09:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2012-09-20T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T09:17:30","slug":"south-african-government-claims-crime-is-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"South African government claims crime is decreasing"},"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\" title=\"knife_murder\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/knife_murder-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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>South Africa&#8217;s murder rate has dropped by 3.1 percent in the past financial year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Releasing the 2011\/12 annual crime statistics at Parliament, Mthethwa said in 2004\/5 more than 18,000 people were murdered &#8212; now down to less than 16,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There had been a 27.6 percent reduction over an eight year period &#8211;2004\/5 to 2011\/12, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sexual offences had dropped by 3.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We need to emphasise that, as government, we are, however, still concerned about the scourge of rape in our country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rape decreased [by] 1.9 percent, but is [still] unacceptably high,&#8221; Mthethwa said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On organised crime, Mthethwa said this category was showing a downward trend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The most highly organised forms of aggravated robberies &#8212; namely carjacking, cash-in-transit heists, and bank robbery &#8212; have experienced decreases,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breaking down the figures, Mthethwa said carjacking decreased by 23.6 percent in 2010\/11. A further decrease of 11.9 percent followed in 2011\/12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cash-in-transit robberies were down by 37.5 percent, and bank robberies by 10.3 percent in 2011\/12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">House robberies decrease by 1.9 percent, but business robberies continued to show an upward trend, jumping 7.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mthethwa noted an increase in small business robberies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have now finalised a strategy to combat and reduce robberies at small business&#8230; we will be engaging relevant parties to ensure implementation of the strategy within next few weeks,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s murder rate has dropped by 3.1 percent in the past financial year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced on Thursday. Releasing the 2011\/12 annual crime statistics at Parliament, Mthethwa said in 2004\/5 more than 18,000 people were murdered &#8212; now down to less than 16,000. There had been a 27.6 percent reduction over an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South African government claims crime is decreasing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1213,34,1210,1214,40,314,36,259,12250],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-carjacking","tag-crime","tag-crime-statistics","tag-crime-stats","tag-murder","tag-nathi-mthetwa","tag-rape","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}