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A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.
According to South African police statistics, there were 21,325 murder victims in 2019 of which 49 were white farmers. During the South Africa's hard lockdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic, crime, including rural crime, decreased.
Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...
A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialist police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa, September 1, 2023 ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa 's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
Guilty. Sentence. Combined 358 years (three out of four facing life sentences) Hannah Cornelius was a 21-year-old South African Stellenbosch University student. Hannah, along with her friend Cheslin Marsh, were abducted by a gang in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in May 2017, which led to Cornelius being brutally raped and murdered. [2]
South Africa also asked the 17-judge panel to make nine urgent orders known as provisional measures. They are aimed at protecting civilians in Gaza while the court considers the legal arguments of ...
South Africa's Police Service (SAPS) releases the country's crime statistics. The crime category "sexual offences" includes a wide range of sexual offences, including rape, sexual assault, incest, bestiality, flashing, and other crimes. [1] SAPS releases statistics on reported rapes every quarter, as well as an annual report (financial year ...