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The South Africans have launched a new website called crimexposouthafrica.co.za on Thursday, which is meant to give visitors a glimpse of death and violence that prevails in the country. This initiative has been taken as the South Africans are enraged with the high levels of violent crime in the country. The 2010 Football World Cup is to take place in South Africa.

The site will eventually feature graphic photos of murder victims provided by their families, as well as breakdown of bloody attacks by region. “South Africans, who were brutally murdered in the past, will return from their graves and via their families and friends tell the international community of their horror,” the site said in its welcoming page on Thursday.

Officials are seeking to build South Africa’s brand name ahead of the 2010 World Cup. Hence the development of this site, which will hopefully warn that negative perceptions of security in the country, could scare off potential visitors. “We are concerned about the appropriateness of any information campaign that focuses only on the negatives and ignores the growing range of successes in the fight against crime,” the International Marketing Council said in a statement.

South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime, with rapes, murders and violent car hijackings regularly making headline in the local press. South African officials led by President Thabo Mbeki plan to launch the country’s World Cup drive at the end of the current Cup competition in Germany on Sunday.