The Richmond local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has the highest murder rate in the country, at 192 per 100,000 people, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Thursday.

A survey conducted by SAIRR showed that Richmond's murder rate was six times that of the national rate of 31 murders per 100,000 people in the 2011/2012.

Two municipalities also had murder rates much higher than the national rate.

These were Sundays River Valley,...read more here: Areas in South Africa with highest murder rate revealed