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The South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded 53,293 sexual offences in 2019/2020, of which there were 7,749 sexual assaults. ...

As of 17 November 2021, the total number of individuals vaccinated in Mpumalanga stood at just over 1 million (1,420,542). ...

No. Legally, no one can be forced or coerced into taking the vaccine. This was affirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed parliament on 3 September 2021: “No one should be forced to be vaccinated. Instead, we need to use the available scientific evidence to encourage — repeat encour...

According to UCT’s Faculty of Health Science, there were 254 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 on 6 September 2021. ...

On 18 September 2018, the South African Constitutional Court decriminalised the use and cultivation of cannabis in a private space. Even though private use of cannabis has been decriminalised–the buying and selling of cannabis, cannabis oil and cannabis seeds remains illegal.The ...

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 2019/20, a total of 2,695 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 2.7% decrease from the previous year. A total of 943 children were murdered in 2019/20– a 7% decline from the previous year. More: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 ...

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...