In the latest of those ubiquitous lists/rankings floating around the web, a Mexican research group has listed the world’s most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. Most of them are from Central and South America — 5 of the 10 most dangerous cities are in Mexico and 40 out of the top 50 are in Latin America. Then this: the most dangerous city outside of South and North America and the Caribbean, is Cape Town at no.34. Two US cities — New Orleans (at no.21) and Detroit (no.30) — beat out Cape Town. But that’s cold comfort. Oh, and the remaining cities from outside the Americas on the list also come from South Africa: Nelson Mandela Bay is at no.41, Durban no.49 and Johannesburg no.50. No other African cities made the list.
Below is a link to the original list which comes complete with statistics. Whatever the sensationalism that goes along with the list or the basis for the comparison, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know where those murders are taking place in Cape Town at least: on the Cape Flats. That part of the city that doesn’t make it into DASO commercials. #CapeTownisAwesome.
Sources: Gawker, Seguridad, Justicia y Paz.
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Can you please post a link to the original research publication please
@blackacrylic: Here (click ‘descargar’).
Living in Durbs for 27years now, i am still around, depends on the crowd one goes arouund with , area one lives, travel patterns , how vigilant one is , to mention but a few factors, overall & final factor is the Unpaid Protection of The Almighty God & His Angels.
I am a South African, I am from Johannesburg. SA is far more dangerous than what the statistics say. Majority of the homicides arnt even recorded in SA, i think the world would be shocked at the murder rates if all were accounted for.