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Out of the 6,083 people killed in the country in the fourth quarter of 2021/22, 898 of them were women and 4,879 were men. This works out to an average of 2 women and 13 men murdered per day in South Africa. The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 19,904 murders in 2020/21. Of t...

Between January and March 2022, there were at least 10,818 cases of rape reported in South Africa, an increase of 13.7% over the same period last year. The true number of rapes is likely to be much higher as many go unreported. The rape rate – calculated based on the national mid-year pop...

In 2020/21, a total of 46,548 sexual offences were recorded by the police – a 6.7% decrease from 53,776 in 2019/20. ...

Between January and March 2021, the South African Police Service recorded 4,976 murders. For the same period in 2022, that number increased to 6,083, an increase of 22.2%. Reported attempted murders also increased from 12,133 to 13,799. The murder rate – calculated based on the national mid-yea...

In 2020/21, a total of 16,802 cars were hijacked – a 7.7% decrease from 18,197 in 2019/20. ...

The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 19,904 murders in 2020/21, a 6.7% decrease from the 2019/20 figure of 21,341. Of the victims, 2,655 were women and 16,367 were men. ...

In 2020/21, a total of 2,655 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 1.5% decrease from the previous year. A total of 882 children were murdered in 2020/21 – a 6.5% decline from the previous year. According to the South African Police Service’s Fourth Quarter Crime Statistics 2021/2022...

In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, a total of 13,815 women over the age of 18 were murdered, according to the South African Police Service. That’s an average of 2,763 murders a year, or about seven women a day. ​​Compared with other countries where stats are available, South A...

South Africa’s murder rate is mainly driven by the high rates in three provinces – the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. In 2021/22 both the Eastern and Western Cape recorded 55 murders per 100,000 people. KZN recorded 42 per 100,000. ...