Nearly one-quarter of all Gauteng (Transvaal) #SouthAfrica residents surveyed in a new study were crime-victims in 2013.
August 24 2014 - A new survey amongst 27,493 respondents by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) found that almost a quarter of Gauteng residents have been a victim of crime in the past year.
Conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), the Quality of Life Survey (QoL) 2013 questioned 25,000 people to find satisfaction levels with governance in the province.
“This third survey by the GCRO is probably the largest ever survey of social attitudes in Gauteng, with a sample of 27,493 respondents, and is accurate to ward level.”
“This remarkably powerful dataset has been analysed and mapped at city-region, city and ward level, to give both overview results and fine-grained ward-level comparisons,” said GCRO executive director, Professor David Everatt.
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Lesedi, Mogale City, Merafong City, Tshwane (Pretoria) and Gauteng all showed an upwards trend in crime, with Lesedi up from 15% to 26% between 2011 and 2013.
Meanwhile, 25% of the Pretoria residents reported being a victim of crime in 2013, against the Gauteng average of 23%.
Midvaal saw a reduction to 19% from 33% in 2009, while Randfontein was perceived as the safest area with only 18% of respondents reporting being a victim of crime over the past year.
HIGHEST CRIME AREAS:
Westonaria, (63%), Emfuleni (62%), Randfontein (56%), Lesedi (54%), Merafong (53%), and Johannesburg (51%) have the highest perceptions that crime has worsened.
-- Further responses from those surveyed indicate that 12% of Gauteng residents feel unsafe or very unsafe walking the streets during the DAY but 68% at NIGHT.
The highest proportion (19%) of residets in the Westonaria municipality feel unsafe during the day, while Emfuleni residents (82%) feel most unsafe at night.
MEXICAN RESEARCH GROUP CLAIMED CAPE TOWN WAS 'MOST VIOLENT PER CAPITA CITY IN SOUTH AFRICA'
In March, a report released by the Mexican research group Seguridad, Justicia y Paz (Security, Justice and Peace), revealed Cape Town to be the most violent city in South Africa.
-- With 51 murders per 100,000 people, Cape Town ranked as the most violent city in the country for its 3.7 million residents – and the 20th most violent in the world.
-- In April, a United Nations report noted that South Africa's crime statistics 'managed to more than halve its murder rate, from 64.5 per 100,000 people in 1995, to 31.0 (16,259 murders) in 2012".
(COMMENT: there also have been widespread reports including on censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports archives, that many police stations in South Africa refuse to take reports of violent crimes in their own territorities and that many crime statistics thus are being 'tweaked' at
local-police station level. Even with all the tweaking South Africa 's crime statistics show that they remain the 8th most violent country in the world and the most violent country in all of Africa.)
http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/65820/shocking-crime-levels-in-gauteng/
NOTE COMMENTS IN ADDITION TO ABOVE REPORT:
COMMENT: Political violence such as the violent invasion of the Gauteng legislature by 2,000 armed members of the Economic Freedom Party - which greatly endangered all the staffers and politicians present inside the chambers and its offices -- were not included in the crime survey nor in the South African violent crime statistics.
The legislature was invaded on July 24 2014 by an armed group of political party members from the Economic Freedom Fighters, reported Sowetan newspaper.
Teargas and stun grenades were thrown in the legislature. Criminal charges of trespassing, damage to property and intimidation were laid in Johannesburg that same night.
It is not known by September 2 2014 what, if anything, have come of these 'charges' nor the names of the police officers who are 'investigating' these violent incidents.
The criminal cases were laid by transport MEC Ismail Vadi and one other unnamed person.
Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the EFF members. (PAGE GRAB attached from Sowetan daily newspaper reports)![]()
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