Fire-arm Related Homicides in Gauteng

Abstract

This fact sheet reports on firearm-related homicide, recorded by the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS), at nine forensic pathology services in the province of Gauteng for 2011, the latest year for which NIMSS data are available. NIMSS is managed and co-ordinated by the Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit of the Medical Research Council and University of South Africa (MRC-UNISA SAPPRU). NIMSS aims to: provide comprehensive information about deaths due to external causes, establish a permanent comprehensive automated system that will timeously register all injury deaths that occur in all nine provinces of South Africa, and inform initiatives for the prevention of non-natural fatalities. NIMSS provides information on the major causes of non-natural deaths and their related demographic, seasonal and circumstantial factors. Presently, NIMSS focuses on the provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga in South Africa.