Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crime costing SA victims billions

South Africa has notoriously high rates of violent crime. Over 50 people are murdered each day in the country, often during robberies. Another 50 a day are the victims of attempts on their lives.
In case, you have forgotten about crime in Jo'burg, go here to read the latest crime statistics for Gauteng.
The four highest earning crimes in South Africa are costing victims an estimate of R110,5-billion a year, an expert at the Institute for Security Studies said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the Annual Border Management Conference, Charles Goredema, program head of the organised crime and money laundering program at the ISS, said the four crimes in

SA which contributed the most toward criminal activity were drug trafficking, smuggling, financial and predatory crime.

He estimated that financial crimes "earned" the most with total gains of R80-billion to R90-billion a year, drug trafficking and smuggling of goods about R10-billion each while predatory crimes such as robbery, house breaking and theft cost victims about R500-million a year.

"It's not an academic calculation, that's just a rough estimate," Goredema said.

Using the latest SA Police Service crime figures, he took the average of the highest and the smallest amount of money gained by criminals in a specific category of crime and multiplied the amounts by the number of crimes during the year.

"In 2009 I will make a much more detailed calculation because I will get the actual figures," he said.
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