Press Release: Justice a death too far in municipalities with the highest murder rates - 24th January 2013.

Three local municipalities have murder rates close to 200 per 100 000 people, six times the national murder rate of 31 per 100 000 people. The municipalities are Richmond (KwaZulu-Natal) with a rate of 192, Sunday’s River Valley (Eastern Cape) at 178, and Victor Khanye (Mpumalanga) at 177.