Irish-Qhobosheane, Jenni. 2021 ‘Counting the Cost of Firearm Violence.’ How to Silence the Guns? Southern Africa's Illegal Firearms Markets, pp. 5-7. Geneva: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva. 19 October

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Between 1994 and 2000, an average of 34 people were shot and killed each day in South Africa. It declined to 18 people a day between 2000 and 2009, but the number has steadily increased since 2010. By 2018, firearms were responsible for the deaths of an average of 23 people a day, with an average of 138 people a day being wounded. Many of these injuries have resulted in severe disabilities.

According to Gun Free South Africa, the 2018/19 national police crime statistics show that guns are overwhelmingly the weapon most used in South Africa to kill, injure, threaten and intimidate. This is evident in the fact that:

- 41.3 per cent of murders involved the use of a firearm.
- 80 per cent of attempted murders involved firearms.
- 83 per cent of car hijackings involved the use of at least one firearm.
- 59 per cent of residential robberies involved the use of firearms.

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