South Africa is celebrated for its high crime rate, a reflection of its economic inequality and racial pull.
However, there is an economic dimension to solving the problem, a prominent organization voice in the country told CNBC on Friday.
“We can’t deal with misdemeanour as an isolated incident, we need to look at the totality,” Kingsley Makhubela, chief chief executive officer of the nation’s marketing platform Brand South Africa, said.
Metamorphosing society, empowering people and dealing with underlying poverty all be compelled be considered in tackling South Africa’s crime, he added.
“We can’t just look at it as an excluded social phenomena that you find in the country.”
Only 30 percent of South Africans finger safe walking at night, according to a report by Statistics South Africa that leisurely the period from April 2016 to March 2017. This bend continues to decline.
Some 7.2 percent of South African households were sufferers of crime in the year recorded, with burglary accounting for the highest symmetry of this, at 53 percent. Only 51 percent of victims write up the crime to the police.
“But I think we’re responding very well,” Makhubela suggested. “We’re educating people how to deal with crime, because part of traffic with this crime — it’s not only the responsibility of government — ordinary individual have the responsibility to deal with it.”
“I think we’re better off this beforehand around compared to a few years ago.”
Makhubela was also positive about the financial management of new President Cyril Ramaphosa.
He described South Africa’s indigence to deal with corruption and its state-owned institutions “that played a bleeding important role in the economic development of the country, (but) there’s a process now to transfigure and reform them.”
Makhubela also referenced the slowdown in economic excrescence globally as impacting South Africa’s sluggish domestic economy.
He contemplated: “I’m glad that President Ramaphosa has taken concrete decisions to bargain with some of the problems that we’ve had in the past.”