[Debate] (Fwd) Most dangerous African city? CT; Durban #49 in the world, Joburg #50 (Sean Jacobs interprets)

[Patrick Bond]

  Cape Town is 'the most dangerous' city in Africa

January 26, 2012 By Sean Jacobs 
<http://africasacountry.com/author/leoafricanus/> 4 Comments 
<http://africasacountry.com/2012/01/26/3-south-african-cities-make-most-dangerous-cities-in-world-list/#comments> 


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In the latest of those ubiquitous lists/rankings floating around the 
web, a Mexican research group has listed the world's most dangerous 
cities based on homicide rates. Most of them are from Central and South 
America --- 5 of the 10 most dangerous cities are in Mexico and 40 out 
of the top 50 are in Latin America. Then this: the most dangerous city 
outside of South and North America and the Caribbean, is Cape Town at 
no.34. Two US cities --- New Orleans (at no.21) and Detroit (no.30) --- 
beat out Cape Town. But that's cold comfort. Oh, and the remaining 
cities from outside the Americas on the list also come from South 
Africa: Nelson Mandela Bay is at no.41, Durban no.49 and Johannesburg 
no.50. No other African cities made the list.

Below is a link to the original list which comes complete with 
statistics. Whatever the sensationalism that goes along with the list or 
the basis for the comparison, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to 
know where those murders are taking place in Cape Town at least: on the 
Cape Flats. That part of the city that doesn't make it into DASO 
commercials <http://africasacountry.com/2012/01/23/benetton-politics/>. 
#CapeTownisAwesome.

Sources: Gawker 
<http://gawker.com/5875816/latin-america-is-the-most-dangerous-region-in-the-world-by-far>, 
Seguridad, Justicia y Paz 
<http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx%2Fsala-de-prensa%2F541-san-pedro-sula-la-ciudad-mas-violenta-del-mundo-juarez-la-segunda>.

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