City dismissed study ranking Cape Town as one of the most violent Cities in the world

Imogen Vollenhoven
4May 2013

The City of Cape Town has dismissed a study ranking Cape Town as one of the most violent cities in the world. 

The study was done by Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, a Mexican-based NGO.

Cape Town was the 27^th most violent city in the world.  Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith said the statistics were unreliable and a distortion of the facts on the ground.

Smith said whilst there certain South African Cities with very high crime rates and as South Africa with a high overall crime rate it must be remembered that Cape Town and the other South African Cities are by no means the most violent Cities in Africa.

Smith added that the research document in Spanish points out that most African countries do not have crime states available or even vaguely reliable crime states while they know there are is crime.