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Wednesday 20 April 2016

Corruption is SA's Worst Crime‚ Survey Finds


Corruption and bribery are South Africa's biggest crime problem‚ according to an index compiled by Numbeo‚ which describes itself as the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries.

Its crime index makes South Africa the third-most dangerous country in the world‚ behind Venezuela and South Sudan; and Pietermaritzburg is the second-most dangerous city in the world‚ behind San Pedro Sula in Honduras.


Most of Africa is excluded from the index because Numbeo has few contributors on the continent. Respondents to the survey were asked to score the level of crime in their country and city from bad (-2) to good (+2). The survey dealt with citizens’ levels of fear about violent crime‚ theft‚ hate crimes based on ethnicity or religion‚ and corruption and bribery.

Corruption and bribery was perceived to be the biggest crime group in South Africa‚ followed by assault and robbery‚ and theft. Being insulted or attacked based on race or religion was the least worrying group.

In the top 10 most dangerous cities‚ Johannesburg is fourth‚ Pretoria fifth and Durban sixth. Cape Town‚ ranked as the ninth most violent city in the world (based on the number of murders per 100‚000 population) is 20th in the Numbeo index. Numbeo’s indices rely on user inputs as well as data manually collected information from a number of authoritative sources‚ with algorithms in place to discard statistically inaccurate data.


The group claims to have collected millions datapoints since it was established‚ and is often used as a comparative data source for media groups such as Forbes‚ Business Insider‚ Time‚ The Economist and the NYT.

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