COMMENT: The white right, women's murders and a massacre of statistics
Horribly flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on SA's white right to prove their thesis that black men ar
Horribly flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on SA's white right to prove their thesis that black men ar
Crimes against farming communities threaten food security and rural economies. It is time for government to find a special solution to this ...
Who owns crime statistics? "In South Africa, the crime statistics are seen as information that belongs to the police which they reluctantly
The under-reporting of crime undermines efforts to combat and prevent crime in South Africa. Only real, consistent and grassroots improvemen
While many believe Johannesburg is the most dangerous metropolitan city to live in, in South Africa, the reality is quite different. Lizette...
How trustworthy are Africa's gross domestic product figures? These all-important statistics have taken on a "dangerously misleading air of a...
Last month South Africa's Daily Maverick website published an article which claimed that "Al-Qaeda is alive and well in South Africa". Was
The recent budget vote speech by South Africa's police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, left out the bad news and relied on questionable statistics...
It is story that is told as fact: South African teenagers are falling pregnant in order to cash in on child support grants. Michelle Solomon
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