Last June Statistics South Africa, the government agency that puts out the country's official economic data, admitted it had greatly overstated inflation for several months because of a glitch in measuring rents.

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U.N. statistics show South Africa has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, second only to Colombia.

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Botswana has the highest rate of recorded attacks - 92.9 per 100, 000 people - but a total of 63 countries don't submit any statistics, including South Africa, where a survey three years ago showed that one in four men questioned admitted to rape.

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While statistics show that rape is common in South Africa, residents say such violence typically doesn't come to this rural community.

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In five years the number of rhinos killed in South Africa has risen from 13 to 588, according to statistics from Traffic, which monitors the trade in endangered animal parts.

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The statistics show the majority of the killings continue in the expansive Kruger National Park in South Africa's northeast.

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