{"id":168431,"date":"2017-04-05T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=168431"},"modified":"2017-04-06T07:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:11:31","slug":"the-9-most-violent-cities-in-south-africa-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/168431\/the-9-most-violent-cities-in-south-africa-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 most violent cities in South Africa ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest violence data compiled by\u00a0Brazilian think-tank<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/igarape.org.br\/en\/\"> Igarap\u00e9 Institute<\/a><\/strong>, shows which South African cities are the most violent.<\/p>\n<p>The group recently showed that three South African cities &#8211; namely Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo city &#8211; are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But using the latest reported crime data (from 2016), six other South African cities were also ranked.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town was ranked as the 14th most violent city in the world, behind \u2018the usual suspects\u2019 from El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s high murder rate in these cities puts the country squarely in the top 10 most violent nations on earth, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town\u2019s high murder rate is closely linked to high levels of gang activity in and around the city \u2013 while the Eastern Cape\u2019s violence problem is linked to overpopulation and poverty in the affected provinces.<\/p>\n<p>While Johannesburg has the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country (and the world), when it comes to murder, it ranks quite low &#8211; of the nine cities listed, it ranks 8th.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the listed cities, the three cities in Gauteng &#8211; Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni &#8211; were the only ones to have murder rates below the national average, and more than half of the murder rate in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are the most violent cities in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"10%\">#<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"60%\">City<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"30%\">Murder rate (2016)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Cape Town<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">61.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Nelson Mandela Bay<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">53.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Buffalo City<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">46.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>eThekwini<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">42.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Manguang<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">40.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Durban<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">35.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><em>South Africa<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>34.3<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Ekurhuleni<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">30.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Johannesburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">29.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>City of Tshwane<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">28.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Three South African cities among the world\u2019s most violent\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/167899\/three-south-african-cities-among-the-worlds-most-violent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Three South African cities among the world\u2019s most violent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest violence data compiled by Brazilian think-tank Igarap\u00e9 Institute, shows which South African cities are the most violent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,11863],"class_list":["post-168431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-igarape-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168439,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168431\/revisions\/168439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}