Statistician General reports sharp rise in sexual offences, decline in murders [SOUND]

# Statistician General Risenga Maluleke has revealed a 55.3-percent surge in sexual offences. Households that experienced housebreaking decreased by one-percent, and murders dropped by 11.9-percent. Presenting the Victims of Crime Report in Pretoria, Maluleke said the survey includes unreported crimes often missing from police data. About 73-thousand households reported sexual offences in the past five-years, up from 47-thousand previously: