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South Africa's Sports Minister: "Our first meeting is end of August in Monaco. My term will be a failure if I dont bring F1 to South Africa." (lemm.ee)
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[Gayton McKenzie, South African sports minister] I have set up meetings with relevant people already, my term will be a failure if I don’t bring one of the biggest sporting tourist events to South Africa which is F1. Our first meeting is end of August in Monaco.

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[–] TheGrandNagus 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or crime. Especially violent crime.

For reference, according to the UN Global study on homicide 2019, here's South Africa and a few other countries' knife homicide rates:

  • UK, Monaco (joint lowest): 0.08 per 100k

  • France: 0.2 per 100k

  • Germany: 0.23 per 100k

  • New Zealand: 0.4 per 100k

  • United States: 0.6 per 100k

  • South Africa (hold onto your fucking hats for this one, the highest in the world): 16.95 per 100k

You are 212x more likely to die from stabbing in South Africa than the UK or Monaco. It's crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would I stab someone when I could simply shotgun them in half?

Or ...

Here's a list of Intentional Homicide rates by country.

South Africa is still insanely high (#4 under 3 countries that have at least one order of magnitude less population).

[–] TheGrandNagus 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mentioned knife crime because my manager, an immigrant from South Africa, said knife crime in particular is rampant, and it's something she was fearful of. But yes it's not limited to knife crime only.