Been meaning to ask the list this question since I stumbled
across the South African Police Services website and got
scared (if those are the official statistics...) Apart from
James McClure, is anybody familiar with any noir/hardboiled
South African writers?
For anyone else who's interested in such matters statistics
are available at: http://www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/200112/report.htm
Among other things, they favourably compare Pretoria's murder
rate (41.12 per 100000) with that of Washington, DC (69.34),
only to let slip a few lines later that Johannesburg's is
136.3.
And the following includes a euphemism of the highest
quality:
"Crime mapping (crime pattern analysis) at most police
stations in South Africa also reveals that wherever bottle
stores, bars/pubs, taverns and shebeens are found there is a
tendency for excessive use of alcohol, brawls
(assaults) and fights which go wrong (murders) to
occur."
Al
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