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According to the World Health Organization’s data, South Africa’s drinking population consumed 28.9 litres of pure alcohol per capita a year, the fifth-highest consumption rate in the world.This was below Namibia (31.3 litres), Eswatini (32.7 litres), Cook Islands (32.9 litres) and Tunisia...

In the first quarter of 2022, a total of 898 women and 306 children were murdered in South Africa, according to the most recent statistics from the South African Police Service (SAPS).In 2020/21, a total of 2,655 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 1.5% decrease from the previ...

The South African Police Service's Annual Report recorded 21,341 murders in 2019/20. Of those victims, 2,695 were women and 17,703were men. This works out to an average of 7 women and 48 men murdered per day in South Africa. ...

The Gini coefficient isa globally used measure of inequality,among individuals or households within an economy.The coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 represents perfect equality (all individuals have the same income) and 1 indicates perfect inequality (where one person has all...

The most recent statistics recorded by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for the first quarter of 2022 reveal that three police stations in KwaZulu-Natal have become a hotbed of murders in South Africa. In 2021/22Kwazulu Natal recorded the highest murder rate with 1,682 murders – an...

In 1953, Professor ZK Matthews, then leader of the ANC in the Cape, proposed that a Congress of the People be convened to draw up a Freedom Charter. The Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955 by the Congress of the People – a gathering of more than 2,800 delegates, representing numerous organisati...

A 2006 analysis of teenage fertility trends found that there were “no grounds to believe that young South African girls are deliberately having children in order to access welfare benefits”.According to the research, teenage childbearing had not increased after the grant was introduced in 1998. ...

The crime detection rate indicates “the successful investigation, positive identification, arrest and charging of the perpetrator”. The detection process covers the period from when a police docket is opened until a suspect has been arrested and charged, or until the docket is closed as unfou...

Thetotal number of laboratory-confirmed cases stood at 3,954,971, as of 30 May 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a tally of global confirmed Covid-19 cases, which is updated daily. You can find the numbers per country here and here. ...