Given the weight people place on crime as an indicator of national health in South Africa, there is an urgent need for demystification around crime trends.
A lot of people think that violent crime in South Africa began rising in 1994 and has continued to rise since then. They are wrong. Our new book, which traces the national murder rates of over a century, shows that the past two decades have shown unprecedented improvement in the physical safety of the vast majority of people in the country.
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