South Africans are more likely to be victims of crime in their own homes than elsewhere. Disaggregated data from Statistics SA show that more than 50% of all crime experienced by households in the country for 2015-16 was housebreaking. Statistician-general Pali Lehohla told reporters "50% of all crime activities happen in a place you call home". At a media briefing in Pretoria‚ Lehohla released a report by StatsSA that explored the extent of and circumstances surrounding housebreaking and home robbery. Overall‚ just half the criminal activities in the country were reported to police (358‚191) out of 727‚130 incidents. Lehohla said crime in SA is actually declining‚ but the public perception is that it is shooting up. According to StatsSA: "One possible reason for the nonalignment between perception and experience of crime could be the media coverage of crime. An increasing number of households have access to news about crimes that took place in other parts of the country and in othe...
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